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When Ray Charles recorded his groundbreaking Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music album in 1962 he was paying tribute to the music he had grown up listening to as typically as blues and J&C. The 23 tracks in Kent’s new compilation take their cue from what Brother Ray completed and supply an outstanding illustration of what can occur Behind Closed Doors…When Country Meets Soul.
Most of the artists featured right here would have heard nation music of their youth as typically as Ray Charles, because of the large 50,000 watt radio stations that could possibly be heard from state to state throughout the decrease half of the D.J. Most of them recorded within the southern studios, and sometimes used pickers from the pool of musicians who labored on nation periods in Memphis, Nashville and Muscle Shoals. It’s no shock that all of them sounded as at house with a rustic music as they did with a straight-forward slice of soul.
Here you’ll hear a few of the largest soul artists of their time on a few of the largest nation hits of the 60s and 70s. Candi Staton does Patsy Cline, James Carr covers Mel Tillis, Millie Jackson sings Merle Haggard, Brook Benton ideas his musical hat to Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Green pays homage to Hank Williams, and a lot extra apart from.
Unlike equally-themed compilations, this CD options solely one hundred% genuine nation songs and one hundred% genuine soul singers. It will not be the primary of its sort however it’s undoubtedly one of the best of its variety up to now.
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