Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

Ray Charles' seminal recordings for Atlantic have been boxed once before, as the triple-disc 1991 set The Birth of Soul. That box contained 53 tracks, the best moments of what is arguably the best period of Charles' career, but Rhino/Atlantic's 2005 seven-disc sequel, Pure Genius, doesn't bother with merely the highlights: as its subtitle makes ...

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More Music from Ray (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

Ever since Dirty Dancing in the late '80s, it has been an industry custom to follow a hit soundtrack with a sequel a few months after the original turned into a hit. By the mid-2000s, this practice was standard, and labels held back material from the original for the sequel, which would nevertheless pale in comparison to the original since, apart ...

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Blue Rain (2007) more music like this

by Eric Andersen

Eric Andersen got his start as a singer/songwriter just about the time the folk revival went bust in the mid-'60s, when the phrase "singer/songwriter" wasn't familiar, as it is today. Now, some 40 years later, Andersen continues to follow his muse, which includes a deep investment in the blues on the live Blue Rain. Andersen's voice seems to have ...

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The Ray Charles Collection (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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The Definitive Soul Collection (2006) more music like this

by Ray Charles

Rhino's 2006 double-disc set The Definitive Soul Collection is the latest in a long list of Ray Charles compilations from Rhino, and it covers much of the same territory as the others: namely, it's a selection of highlights from his classic Atlantic recordings from the '50s. Since it doesn't have any of Ray's ABC sides of the '60s, it can't quite ...

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Fortune Tellin' Man (1993) more music like this

by Jesse Fortune

Team one of the criminally overlooked blues vocalists inhabiting Chicago's West side with a tight young combo sporting a decidedly retro approach and you get this fine album, veteran singer Jesse Fortune's debut set. Guitarist Dave Specter & the Bluebirds admirably back the big-voiced Fortune as he recuts his Willie Dixon-penned USA label classic ...

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From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies (1999) more music like this

by Susannah McCorkle

Susannah McCorkle suceeds where others have failed on her latest release for Concord Jazz titled, From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies. Her silky voice wraps around the classic Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington "Something to Live For," like a velvet envelope. Filled with emotional yearning, her interpretations render the listener motionless, rapt in ...

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Brother Ray (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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Hallelujah I Love Her So! (1962) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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Blues + Jazz (1993) more music like this

by Ray Charles

Another easy access point for Charles' seminal Atlantic catalog. This two-disc set is evenly split between his bluesiest sides on the first disc and a selection of his greatest jazz sides on disc two (gorgeously showcasing the sax work of David "Fathead" Newman on several pieces). Charles was a masterful blues purveyor; his "I Believe to My Soul" ...

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I Got a Woman: Selected Singles '52-'55 (2007) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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Sinner's Prayers 1951-54 (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

It's practically impossible to underestimate Ray Charles' importance in the history of R&B, and given his popularity, influence, and career longevity, it should come as no surprise that the man's body of work has been heavily anthologized over the years, especially since his passing in 2004. However, while most of the posthumous Ray Charles ...

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Tore Up (1984) more music like this

by Nappy Brown & The Heartfixers

After too many years during which he was missing and presumed forever lost in action, Brown returned to prominence with this very credible album, cut with backing by guitarist Tinsley Ellis and the Heartfixers and originally issued on the tiny Landslide logo. He reprises his salacious blues "Lemon Squeezin' Daddy" and rolls his R's like the good ...

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I Got a Woman (2004) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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Here's Ray Charles (2006) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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Jimi Hendrix's Jukebox (2007) more music like this

by Various Artists

Although these 25 tracks recorded between 1941 and 1956 may well have inspired Jimi Hendrix in his early years, they also inspired a whole lot of other people as well, since every one of these sides is a classic and, taken together, they make for a nice and diverse "jukebox" in almost anyone's name. Included here are immortal cuts like Elmore ...

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Legend Lives On (2008) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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The Atlantic Story 1952-1954 (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

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1953-1954 (2005) more music like this

by Ray Charles

Classics 5134 1953-1954 spotlights Ray Charles earliest sessions for Atlantic Records. Recorded in New York, New Orleans, and Atlanta between May 1953 and November 1954, Charles is heard in three different settings: solo, fronting a small combo with a horn section, and with a full orchestra. It was at this point in his career that Ray Charles ...

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Messing with the Blues (2000) more music like this

by Various Artists

Atlantic did not record a great deal of blues records, focusing even on its outset on more urban music that could be more comfortably classified as R&B (and later rock and soul). It did its share of worthwhile, though not classic, blues from the late '40s to the early '60s, and 25 examples are collected on this CD. Overall, the Atlantic blues ...

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Tell the Truth (1984) more music like this

by Ray Charles

This is a well-chosen 16-track anthology covering Charles's Atlantic years, 1953-1959. It contains the #1 R&B hits "I've Got A Woman," "Drown In My Own Tears," and "What'd I Say," along with other memorable recordings. The only reason it is denied a rating as the place to start listening to Ray Charles is that it is a U.K. import on a small label ...

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Heart's Desire (1990) more music like this

by Henry Kaiser

A recording of Kaiser's working California band of the late '80s and early '90s, Heart's Desire splits its time about evenly between originals and the cover versions that made much of the group's reputation. Part of the pleasure derived from his covers was not just the expertise and giddy joy with which they were usually delivered, but simply the ...

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