Love Country Style
In the ’50s, Ray Charles invented soul. In the ’60s, he re-invented country and gave it a global audience
in the process. In the ’70s, he made the album that would be the purest fusion of the two genres he introduced to the world, Love Country Style.
At his absolute peak as a singer and player and as musically open-minded as ever, Ray Charles included songs from the most revered songwriters in the progressive country scene—Mickey Newbury and Jimmy Webb—alongside tracks from his own A-list stable of composers, and a couple of country classics, all rendered as no one but Ray Charles ever could.
Rolling Stone called out his take on “Ring Of Fire,” saying that it “plummets deeper and burns hotter” than the Johnny Cash hit . . . and that’s not even the the highlight of this long out-of-print masterpiece, finally ready to remind fans of the modern countrysoul scene who did it first and who did it best.
REISSUED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, WITH THE FULL COOPERATION OF THE RAY CHARLES FOUNDATION
THE MOST SOUL-INFUSED OF RAY CHARLES’ COUNTRY ALBUMS, POINTING THE WAY TO
CHRIS STAPLETON AND YOLA
REMASTERED BY MULTIPLE GRAMMYWINNING ENGINEER MICHAEL GRAVES WITH
VINYL MASTERING BY JEFF POWELL
In the ’50s, Ray Charles invented soul. In the ’60s, he re-invented country and gave it a global audience
in the process. In the ’70s, he made the album that would be the purest fusion of the two genres he introduced to the world, Love Country Style.
At his absolute peak as a singer and player and as musically open-minded as ever, Ray Charles included songs from the most revered songwriters in the progressive country scene—Mickey Newbury and Jimmy Webb—alongside tracks from his own A-list stable of composers, and a couple of country classics, all rendered as no one but Ray Charles ever could.
Rolling Stone called out his take on “Ring Of Fire,” saying that it “plummets deeper and burns hotter” than the Johnny Cash hit . . . and that’s not even the the highlight of this long out-of-print masterpiece, finally ready to remind fans of the modern countrysoul scene who did it first and who did it best.
REISSUED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, WITH THE FULL COOPERATION OF THE RAY CHARLES FOUNDATION
THE MOST SOUL-INFUSED OF RAY CHARLES’ COUNTRY ALBUMS, POINTING THE WAY TO
CHRIS STAPLETON AND YOLA
REMASTERED BY MULTIPLE GRAMMYWINNING ENGINEER MICHAEL GRAVES WITH
VINYL MASTERING BY JEFF POWELL
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In the ’50s, Ray Charles invented soul. In the ’60s, he re-invented country and gave it a global audience
in the process. In the ’70s, he made the album that would be the purest fusion of the two genres he introduced to the world, Love Country Style.
At his absolute peak as a singer and player and as musically open-minded as ever, Ray Charles included songs from the most revered songwriters in the progressive country scene—Mickey Newbury and Jimmy Webb—alongside tracks from his own A-list stable of composers, and a couple of country classics, all rendered as no one but Ray Charles ever could.
Rolling Stone called out his take on “Ring Of Fire,” saying that it “plummets deeper and burns hotter” than the Johnny Cash hit . . . and that’s not even the the highlight of this long out-of-print masterpiece, finally ready to remind fans of the modern countrysoul scene who did it first and who did it best.
REISSUED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, WITH THE FULL COOPERATION OF THE RAY CHARLES FOUNDATION
THE MOST SOUL-INFUSED OF RAY CHARLES’ COUNTRY ALBUMS, POINTING THE WAY TO
CHRIS STAPLETON AND YOLA
REMASTERED BY MULTIPLE GRAMMYWINNING ENGINEER MICHAEL GRAVES WITH
VINYL MASTERING BY JEFF POWELL
