Of all his many romances, however, Ray Charles called only two “wife.” The man behind songs like What’d I Say, Hit the Road Jack, and Georgia on My Mind married Eileen Williams in 1952.

CD1: Them That Got; Who You Gonna Love; My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do); Georgia On My Mind; Moonlight In Vermont; Moon Over Miami; Blue Hawaii; Chattanooga Choo-Choo; Basin Street Blues; Deep In The ...

Welcome to Analog Adventures, where we run down the latest stacks of wax to hit our mailbox. Reissues, new releases, and more ...

Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, ...

In Ray Charles’ “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” Jones used orchestral ... Jones’ skill at using arrangement as a storytelling ...

Ray Charles was only 22 years old when he was signed to Atlantic Records, but he was already a veteran in the industry. As a teenager growing up in Florida, he learned to read music using braille ...

Fans of Ray Charles (isn’t that everybody?) have an early holiday gift with the re-release of two historic American albums wherein Brother Ray took country music and shook it up bigtime. “The Genius,” ...