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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Ray Charles ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Singin' the Blues with Soul ▀ ░
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 66:49 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 07-01-2004 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 60,3 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. ain't that fine 02:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. how long blues 02:36 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. blues before sunrise 02:49 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. you'll never miss the water 02:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. i've had my fun 02:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. sittin' on top of the world 02:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. see see rider 02:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. honey honey 02:43 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. what have i done 02:34 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. the ego song 02:22 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. late in the evening blues 03:07 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. some day 03:11 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. baby let me hold your hand 03:03 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14. baby, won't you please come home 02:56 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 15. kissa me baby 03:11 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16. the snow is falling 02:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 17. hey now 02:20 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 18. misery in my heart 03:05 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 19. i'm wondering and wondering 03:21 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 20. why did you go _ 02:50 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 21. jumpin' in the morning 02:47 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 22. the sun's gonna shine again 02:40 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 23. the midnight hour 03:02 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 24. roll with my baby 02:35 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Ray Charles belongs to that race of musicians which ▓▌
▓████▓▌ transcends styles, fashions and genres. All music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ comes together in fusion in his song to produce an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ authentic ôcrossoverö. In his burning-hot voice we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ discover the entire geography of America. ôWhen I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ look at my career,ö he said, ôI notice that I tend ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to accumulate. Apart from my first impressions of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Nat King Cole or Charles Brown, I never abandoned a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thing, I piled it all togetheràö A single ▓▌
▓████▓▌ influence, however, stands out as the source of his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ art: the blues. This album, which gathers titles ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recorded between 1949 and 1952, is an irresistible ▓▌
▓████▓▌ show of faith. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ form, but Charles did even more to devise a new ▓▌
▓████▓▌ form of black pop by merging '50s R&B with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from ▓▌
▓████▓▌ contemporary jazz, blues, and (in the '60s) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ country. Then there is his singing; his style is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ among the most emotional and easily identifiable of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ any 20th-century performer, up there with the likes ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of Elvis and Billie Holiday. He's also a superb ▓▌
▓████▓▌ keyboard player, arranger, and bandleader. The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ brilliance of his 1950s and 1960s work, however, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ can't obscure the fact that he's made few classic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tracks since the mid-'60s, though he's recorded ▓▌
▓████▓▌ often and tours to this day. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Blind since the age of six (from glaucoma), Charles ▓▌
▓████▓▌ studied composition and learned many instruments at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Blind. His parents had died by his early teens, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ he worked as a musician in Florida for a while ▓▌
▓████▓▌ before using his savings to move to Seattle in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 1947. By the late '40s, he was recording in a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ smooth pop/R&B style derivative of Nat "King" Cole ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and Charles Brown. He got his first Top Ten R&B hit ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand" in 1951. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Charles' first recordings have come in for their ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fair share of criticism, as they are much milder ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and less original than the classics that would ▓▌
▓████▓▌ follow, although they're actually fairly enjoyable, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ showing strong hints of the skills that were to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ flower in a few years. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ In the early '50s, Charles' sound started to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ toughen as he toured with Lowell Fulson, went to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ New Orleans to work with Guitar Slim (playing piano ▓▌
▓████▓▌ on and arranging Slim's huge R&B hit, "The Things ▓▌
▓████▓▌ That I Used to Do"), and got a band together for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ R&B star Ruth Brown. It was at Atlantic Records ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that Ray Charles truly found his voice, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ consolidating the gains of recent years and then ▓▌
▓████▓▌ some with "I Got a Woman," a number-two R&B hit in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 1955. This is the song most frequently singled out ▓▌
▓████▓▌ as his pivotal performance, on which Charles first ▓▌
▓████▓▌ truly let go with his unmistakable gospel-ish moan, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ backed by a tight, bouncy horn-driven arrangement. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Throughout the '50s, Charles ran off a series of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ R&B hits that, although they weren't called "soul" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ at the time, did a lot to pave the way for soul by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ presenting a form of R&B that was sophisticated ▓▌
▓████▓▌ without sacrificing any emotional grit. "This ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Little Girl of Mine," "Drown in My Own Tears," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Hallelujah I Love Her So," "Lonely Avenue," and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "The Right Time" were all big hits. But Charles ▓▌
▓████▓▌ didn't really capture the pop audience until ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "What'd I Say," which caught the fervor of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ church with its pleading vocals, as well as the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ spirit of rock & roll with its classic electric ▓▌
▓████▓▌ piano line. It was his first Top Ten pop hit, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ one of his final Atlantic singles, as he left the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ label at the end of the '50s for ABC. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ One of the chief attractions of the ABC deal for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Charles was a much greater degree of artistic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ control of his recordings. He put it to good use on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ early-'60s hits like "Unchain My Heart" and "Hit ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Road Jack," which solidified his pop stardom ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with only a modicum of polish attached to the R&B ▓▌
▓████▓▌ he had perfected at Atlantic. In 1962, he surprised ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the pop world by turning his attention to country & ▓▌
▓████▓▌ western music, topping the charts with the "I Can't ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Stop Loving You" single, and making a hugely ▓▌
▓████▓▌ popular album (in an era in which R&B/soul LPs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rarely scored high on the charts) with Modern ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Sounds in Country and Western Music. Perhaps it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ shouldn't have been so surprising; Charles had ▓▌
▓████▓▌ always been eclectic, recording quite a bit of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ straight jazz at Atlantic, with noted jazz ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians like David "Fathead" Newman and Milt ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Charles remained extremely popular through the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ mid-'60s, scoring big hits like "Busted," "You Are ▓▌
▓████▓▌ My Sunshine," "Take These Chains From My Heart," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and "Crying Time," although his momentum was slowed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ by a 1965 bust for heroin. This led to a year-long ▓▌
▓████▓▌ absence from performing, but he picked up where he ▓▌
▓████▓▌ left off with "Let's Go Get Stoned" in 1966. Yet by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this time Charles was focusing increasingly less on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rock and soul, in favor of pop tunes, often with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ string arrangements, that seemed aimed more at the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ easy listening audience than anyone else. Charles' ▓▌
▓████▓▌ influence on the rock mainstream was as apparent as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ever; Joe Cocker and Steve Winwood in particular ▓▌
▓████▓▌ owe a great deal of their style to him, and echoes ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ One approaches sweeping criticism of Charles with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hesitation; he's an American institution, after ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all, and his vocal powers have barely diminished ▓▌
▓████▓▌ over the years. The fact remains, though, that his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ work since the late '60s on record has been very ▓▌
▓████▓▌ disappointing. Millions of listeners yearned for a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ return to the all-out soul of his 1955-1965 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ classics, but Charles had actually never been ▓▌
▓████▓▌ committed to soul above all else. Like Aretha ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Franklin and Elvis Presley, his focus is more upon ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all-around pop than many realize; his love of jazz, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ country, and pop standards is evident, even if his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ more earthy offerings are the ones that truly broke ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ground and will stand the test of time. He's dented ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the charts (sometimes the country ones) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ occasionally, and can command devoted international ▓▌
▓████▓▌ concert audiences whenever he feels like it. For ▓▌
▓████▓▌ good or ill, he ensured his imprint upon the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ American mass consciousness in the 1990s by singing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ several ads for Diet Pepsi. The CD era has seen ▓▌
▓████▓▌ several excellent packages that focus on various ▓▌
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