Ray Charles released a wide variety of music, including these three songs, which sound like pure country gold.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Ray Charles, affectionately known as Brother Ray, is one of the most influential musicians of all time. His ability to seamlessly blend blues, jazz, gospel, country, and R&B into an ...

Few artists can claim to have had such a wide-ranging impact on music as Ray Charles. During a career that has spanned some 58 years, the icon performed on more than 250 albums -- many of them top ...

Ray Charles Robinson, known the world over as multi-award-winning icon Ray Charles, may have departed this world, but his music endures thanks in part to the Ray Charles Foundation. Recently, the ...

Time was not kind to Ray Charles, but for decades he seemed impervious to its machinations. His best years had come in the mid-’50s and the ’60s, when he virtually invented soul and then refused to be ...

Ray Charles is best known for recording hit soul and R&B songs. His album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, recorded in the 60s, spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard pop albums chart.

Two wonderful albums from Ray Charles and El Michels Affair that belong in your record collection in 2021. 2021 is just flying by and I will have a lot more to say about my Record Store Day 2021 ...

My Baby Don't Dig Me; Without Love (There Is Nothing); The Brightest Smile In Town; Hide Nor Hair; My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do); No One; Don't Set Me Free; Something's Wrong; At The Club; Worried ...

It was a quiet moment in a recording studio between two old friends — the genius of soul and the king of blues. Ray Charles and B.B. King were readying to record a bluesy number that married one’s ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in The Tennessean's print edition on March 5, 2006. The art featured in this digital replica did not necessarily run in the original print edition. One ...