(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 ...
Ray Charles enjoyed tremendous commercial success in country music in the mid-'80s with songs from his Friendship album, but his most long-lasting influence on the genre came 20 years earlier. The ...
“Seven Spanish Angels” is one of the most iconic country duets ever recorded, a truly haunting, Gospel-tinged ballad performed by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles in 1984. The song was written by Troy ...
Long before playlists, streaming algorithms, and AI-generated tunes, Ray Charles was already tearing up genre maps and putting his own spin on the American songbook in ways few artists dared. Country, ...
Legend has it that famed recording artist Billy Joel has said Ray Charles was more important than Elvis. To wit, Frank Sinatra called Charles at one point the “only true genius” in show business. With ...
Somewhere in America -- probably in a lot of somewheres in America -- folks are hearing a Ray Charles song or, more likely, a glorious string of Ray Charles songs, as they come to terms with the ...
Steve Tyrell’s music career was as a writer/producer until the early 1990s when he was asked to demo a Frank Sinatra-popularized standard for the film “Father of the Bride.” His take was such that the ...