Charles laid claim to the center of American popular music on these 1962 classics, and ended up with some of the brashest and best-selling music... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...
This is FRESH AIR. In 1962, Ray Charles released two albums that became surprise hits - "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music," Volumes 1 and 2. At the time, few popular black artists had ...
"Inventing soul music as a combination of blues sensuality and gospel fervor, as Ray Charles did, would be enough to put him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's inaugural class. But 'Modern Sounds in ...