I just happened to be lounging around this afternoon, reading and listening to the station when I heard a Charles Brown song play followed by an early Ray Charles tune. One has to wonder how Ray Charles’ music career would have developed without the early and obvious influences of Nat King Cole and Charles Brown. I say it over and over again — there is no family tree more resplendent and vast than that of the family of jazz. And what fruit it bore — soul, rock ‘n roll, rhythm and blues.
Come to think of it, where would I be without all this great music? Squaresville.
Ray Charles - You’ll Never Miss The Water
February 15th, 2009 at
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