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Ray Charles Says It All

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

About the author: Mild-mannered corporate executive by day, excitable Twangville denizen by night.

Filed Under: News, Soul/R&B, Videos Tagged With: Ray Charles

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Which was your favorite Readers’ Top Pick of 2024?

Joe Ely – Driven to Drive
The Secret Sisters – Mind, Man, Medicine
Amythyst Kiah – Still + Bright
Will Hoge – Tenderhearted Boys
Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years)
Sour Bridges – Down and Out
Corb Lund – El Viejo
Shane Smith and the Saints – Norther
Dustin Lowman – Invulnerable
Iron & Wine – Light Verse
Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
Dawes – Oh Brother
Phosphorescent – Revelator
Kelsey Waldon – There’s Always a Song
Grayson Capps – Heartbreak, Misery & Death
Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth
Ronnie Baker Brooks – Blues in My DNA
Barnstar! – Furious Kindness
Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve
Anders Osborne – Picasso’s VIlla
Blackberry Smoke – Be Right Here
Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home
The Steel Wheels – Sideways
Eddie 9V – Saratoga
Eric Bibb – In The Real World
Old 97’s – American Primitive
Lone Justice – Viva Lone Justice
The Felice Brothers – Valley of Abandoned Songs
Old Heavy Hands – Small Fires
Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days
Mindy Smith – Quiet Town
Father John Misty – Mashamashana
Shovels & Rope – Something Is Working Up Above My Head
Amy Speace – The American Dream
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
The Dead South – Chains & Stakes
Jack the Radio – Under Lonely Light
Caleb Caudle – Sweet Critters
Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe
Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown
Holler Choir – Songs Before They Write Themselves
Kasey Anderson – To the Places We Lived
Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland
Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
Morgan Wade – Obsessed
Jontavious Willis – West Georgia Blues
Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene
Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham – Cunningham Bird
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – South of Here
Amos Lee – Transmissions
Will Kimbrough – For the Life of Me
Pokey LaFarge – Rhumba Country
Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
The Avett Brothers – The Avett Brothers
The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains
Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
Liv Greene – Deep Feeler
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – TexiCali
Gangstagrass – The Blackest Thing on the Menu
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers – Revelations
Daniel Romano’s Outfit – Too Hot to Sleep
Joshua Ray Walker – Thank You For Listening
Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
Jesse Dayton – The Hard Way Blues
Willie Nelson – Last Leaf on the Tree
The Mavericks – Moon & Stars
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me
Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay
The Deslondes – Roll It Out
The Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About You
Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
The Coward Brothers – Elvis Costello & T Bone Burnett
Teddy and the Rough Riders – Down Home
Jeremie Albino – Our Time in the Sun
Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
The Brother Brothers – The January Album
James Talley – Bandits, Ballads and Blues
Willie Nelson – The Border
Cedric Burnside – Hill Country Love
Chris O’Leary – The Hard Line
Joe Pug – Sketch of a Promised Departure
Chris Smither – All About the Bones
Melissa Carper – Borned in Ya
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats – The Hits Keep Coming
Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
Paul Cauthen – Black on Black
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams – All This Time
AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass
Kim Richey – Every New Beginning
Flatland Cavalry – Flatland Forever
Frontier Ruckus – On the Northline
Richard Thompson – Ship to Shore
Samara Joy – Portrait
Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy
Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers
X – Smoke & Fiction
Alejandro Escovedo – Echo Dancing
The Wild Feathers – Sirens
Ruthie Foster – Mileage
Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers
Jeffrey Foucault – Universal Fire

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