1970

• October 11, 2014

  There’ll Be Some Changes Made

  Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters,  Concord Records, October 2010. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Date unknown, but looking at the recorded live performances, it most probably was in the ’80s. The percussion on the album track sounds like the producers added worse than just “a little sweetening” post mortem. Live: ’82c […]

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• October 10, 2014

  This Here (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. They knew it from the road. With uncredited band members, but the best possible reconstruction – with some uncertainties – is: Bobby Bryant, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell – trumpets; Glen Childress, Henry […]

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• October 10, 2014

  Till I Can’t Take It Anymore

  Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970. Single (B): ABC 11271, August 1970, b/w If You Were Mine. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Arranged by Sid Feller. With strings, and a rhythm section. The musicians remained uncredited. Carol Kaye possibly on bass; David T. Walker and Steve Guillory contributed on guitar.

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• October 8, 2014

  Wheel Of Fortune

  Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. The Rare Genius album compiled recordings with uncredited (band and sesson) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles from the ’70s to the ’90s. A few details in this nice track sound as if it has been victim of “adding a little sweetening to some […]

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• October 8, 2014

  Why Me, Lord (With Johnny Cash)

  Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This duet track with Why Me, Lord was discovered in the Sony vaults; the Kristofferson song was produced by Billy Sherrill in Nashville in 1981 for a Johnny Cash CBS album – which never was released. Ray added some fantastic keyboard licks. Hear this Johnny Cash version, […]

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• October 6, 2014

  You’ve Still Got A Place In My Heart

  Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, 1970-06. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited (but David T. Walker and Steve Guillory contributed on guitar).

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• October 6, 2014

  Zig Zag

  Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512. 1970-04. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Ray Charles – piano; J. Lloyd Miller – alto saxophone, oboe; Curtis Peagler – alto saxophone; Andy Ennis, Albert McQueen, Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bobby Bryant, Bill King, […]

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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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