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  December 17, 2010

  Ray Charles Live In Torino (1971)

  My sources on the contents of this bootleg-CD are highly contradictive. For documental reasons I’ve described them all below. But let’s start with the correct track list: Collection André Monnot. Intro + Tears Inside(erroneously, titled Blues Connotation on the bootleg CD) (Ray Charles Orchestra; Ray on piano) The Bright Lights And You Girl Georgia On […]

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  September 13, 2010

  Love And Peace (1978)

  You 20th-Century Fox (James Gadson on drums) Take Off That Dress She Knows Riding Thumb We Had It All No Achievement Showing A Peace That We Never Before Could Enjoy Is There Anyone Out There Give The Poor Man A Break Love And Peace was the first Ray Charles album produced on 24 tracks, at […]

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• September 10, 2010

  Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters (2010)

  Rare Genius was yet another post mortem album, released on 26 October 2010. The album was announced as a “treasure trove of newly discovered recordings”, “culled from four decades worth of demos and other previously unreleased material”, from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. According to the press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, […]

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  September 5, 2010

  Ray Charles Was In Town – Chronology 2004>

  Late 2003 or Early 2004 At RPM Studio. Photo by Patrik Anderson. Interviewed for Tom Dowd And The Language Of Music (DVD released in August 2004). See this.    2004 Contributing to a PSA for Mentoring.org, with Quincy Jones. See this. Genius Loves Company peaks at #1 on Pop Album Chart. Release of Ellis Hall’s […]

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