![]() There’ll be No Peace Without All Men As One.If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck (w/Jimmy Lewis).Somebody Ought to Write a Book About It.Baby, It’s Cold Outside (w/Betty Carter).I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town.Ray Charles, True Genius (Tangerine, 2021) ( Amazon U.S. You’ll find the complete track listing with discographical annotation below. Ray Charles’ True Genius is due on September 10 from Tangerine Records on CD and download/streaming. have been culled), leaving the door open for further reissues and perhaps a long-overdue comprehensive albums campaign. On its website, The Ray Charles Foundation notes that it controls all of his post-Atlantic recordings other than the 1984 Columbia Records duets LP Friendship (from which tracks with Willie Nelson and Hank Williams, Jr. Somewhat shockingly for an artist of Ray Charles’ immense stature in the realms of rhythm and blues, soul, jazz, country, and pop, most of his ABC, Tangerine, Crossover, and Columbia albums have never appeared on CD, making this anthology all the more appealing. While they’re not credited in the official track listing, it appears that Charles’ duets with Betty Carter (“Baby, It’s Cold Outside)” and Cleo Laine ( Porgy and Bess’ “Summertime”) are also included. ![]() True Genius features many of Charles’ all-time classic recordings (“Georgia on My Mind,” “One Mint Julep,” “Hit the Road, Jack,” “Unchain My Heart,” “Hallelujah, I Love Her So”) as well as his singular interpretations of songs from across the musical spectrum (The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” “Something,” and “Let It Be,” Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City,” Kermit the Frog’s “Bein’ Green,” John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire,” and Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years”).Ī number of duets are also featured with such artists as Willie Nelson (“Seven Spanish Angels”), Billy Joel (“Baby Grand”), Lou Rawls and vibraphonist Milt Jackson (“Save the Bones for Henry Jones”), Eric Clapton (“None of Us Are Free”), Norah Jones (“Here We Go Again”), and Quincy Jones and Chaka Khan (“I’ll Be Good to You”). #RAY CHARLES GENIUS AND FRIENDS PLUS#Scott Galloway plus a message from Quincy Jones. ![]() All six discs have been newly mastered and are housed in a 44-page hardcover book featuring liner notes by Ray Charles Foundation President Valerie Erwin and journalist A. In addition to album tracks (many of which haven’t been previously released on CD), the collection features non-LP singles and a previously unreleased 1972 concert recorded in Stockholm. (Tracks appear to be missing from 1985’s The Spirit of Christmas, 1995’s Strong Love Affair, and 2002’s Thanks for Bringing Love Around Again.) True Genius, due on September 10, is a book-style package featuring nearly 100 tracks culled from almost every one of Charles’ post-Atlantic albums originally issued on Tangerine and its successor Crossover Records as well as the Impulse!, RCA, Columbia, Warner Bros., and Concord labels. The label closed in 1973 when Charles departed the ABC roster, but the Ray Charles Foundation has recently reactivated it for a special 6-CD anthology celebrating its founder. In addition to many of his Charles’ own recordings, Tangerine issued music from Louis Jordan, Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Scott, Ike and Tina Turner, and other artists championed by The Genius. ![]() Ray Charles formed Tangerine Records in 1962 as part of the creative freedom he earned by jumping from Atlantic Records to ABC-Paramount. ![]()
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