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• October 9, 2014

  Wee Baby Blues

  Unreleased. Ray gave this tune a sloooooow performance during a concert in Stockholm on 2 October 1973. John Henderson on piano, Ray on electric piano. I assume the guitar solo was played by Harvey Sarch (who doesn’t remember that, though). In 1957 Ray had contributed to a recording of the song by Big Joe Turner.

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• December 1, 2011

  Ray Charles Live In Stockholm (1973)

  On 2 October 1973 the Ray Charles troupe played a concert in Stockholm. In an earlier version of this article I reported on a partial recording (possibly originating from a radio broadcast) of six of the tunes that were performed during this  show, but I have now listened to a complete tape: Intro Let The […]

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