Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Bye Bye Love
2. You Don't Know Me
3. Half as Much
4. I Love You So Much It Hurts
5. Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)
6. Born to Lose
7. Worried Mind
8. It Makes No Difference Now
9. You Win Again
10. Careless Love
11. I Can't Stop Loving You
12. Hey, Good Lookin'
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. No Letter Today
15. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
16. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
17. Midnight
18. Oh, Lonesome Me
19. Take These Chains from My Heart
20. Your Cheatin' Heart
21. I'll Never Stand in Your Way
22. Making Believe
23. Teardrops in My Heart
24. Hang Your Head in Shame

Disc 2:

1. I'm Movin' On
2. Busted
3. No One to Cry To
4. Move It on Over
5. Love's Gonna Live Here (Swingova)
6. I'm a Fool to Care
7. Crying Time
8. Together Again
9. I Don't Care
10. Blue Moon of Kentucky (Swingova)
11. Don't Let Her Know
12. Please Say You're Fooling
13. She's Lonesome Again
14. Born Loser
15. Girl I Used to Know
16. Here We Go Again
17. When I Stop Dreamin'
18. If You Were Mine
19. Your Love Is So Doggone Good
20. Don't Change on Me
21. Till I Can't Take It Anymore
22. You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
23. I Keep It Hid
24. Sweet Memories
25. Good Morning Dear

Disc 3:

1. Ring of Fire
2. What Am I Living For?
3. Three Bells
4. All I Ever Need Is You
5. Wichita Lineman
6. Down in the Valley
7. Take Me Home, Country Roads
8. Never Ending Song of Love
9. Come Live With Me
10. Sunshine
11. We Had It All
12. (Turn Out the Light And) Love Me Tonight
13. I Wish You Were Here Tonight
14. Ain't Your Memory Got No Pride at All
15. Born to Love Me
16. I Don't Want No Stranger Sleepin' in My Bed
17. Let Your Love Flow
18. You Feel Good All Over
19. You've Got the Longest Leaving Act in Town
20. String Bean

Disc 4:

1. 3/4 Time
2. Shakin' Your Head
3. I Had It All
4. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
5. Woman (Sensuous Woman)
6. Then I'll Be over You
7. If I Were You
8. Workin' Man's Woman
9. Two Old Cats Like Us - Ray Charles, Hank Williams, Jr.
10. This Old Heart (Is Gonna Rise Again) - Ray Charles, The Oak Ridge Boys
11. We Didn't See a Thing - Chet Atkins, Ray Charles, George Jones
12. Who Cares - Ray Charles, Janie Fricke
13. Friendship - Ray Charles, Ricky Skaggs
14. It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind - Ray Charles, Mickey Gilley
15. Little Hotel Room - Ray Charles, Merle Haggard
16. Crazy Old Soldier - Johnny Cash, Ray Charles
17. Seven Spanish Angels - Ray Charles, Willie Nelson
18. Pages of My Mind
19. Slip Away
20. Anybody With the Blues
21. Little Bit of Heaven
22. Dixie Moon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80395 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-27
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
Feeling is what Ray Charles is all about--straight from the gut, exposed and vulnerable, real. And because it's the feeling of his music that matters most to him, whether it's found in the words he's singing or the notes he's playing, he has never seen any reason to limit himself to any particular style. He's played blues and gospel, jazz and soul, pop and rock and country, and for a half century now he's scored hits and created masterpieces with just about all of it--very often all of it at once! But no matter how startlingly dynamic his arrangements, the focus is always the feeling in Charles's voice. It's such an expressive, soulful instrument that, regardless of what's swirling around it--strings? gospel choir? pedal-steel guitar? all of the above?--it still demands the center of attention. Charles's version of country music takes the listener to unexpected places, musically and emotionally. Hearing all of his interactions with C&W pulled together like this simply amazes. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews

Superlative box set -- probably the best in my collection
The soul and spirit in this collection is far beyond description. The feelin' starts on track 1 of disc 1 and continues on to track 22 of disc 4, and stays with you long after that. Sure, Ray Charles is a household name. But I don't think many people realize how deep of a soul singer and songwriter he is.

If you have any inkling as to who Ray Charles is and what he's about--and it appeals to you--then you will *LOVE* this entire collection (FORGET about "country"/"R&B" classifications--it is SOUL music). Some box sets are overkill with the content, making it hard to truly enjoy everything from beginning to end. This is a major exception. The songs range from the 1950s to the 1980s, and, to my wonderful surprise, the 1980s tracks don't have that fake, overproduced sound that most records from the 1980s have. And the tracks from the 1950s and 60s, of course, have that wonderful "live" sound that only recordings from that time could have. It's all good!

I was hesitant to buy this entire collection, and it makes me so happy to know that I took the chance because I wouldn't know what I was missing if I had simply gotten the "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" album.

Ray Charles RULES!

A Ray Of Pure Light
With the exception of cd no:4 (which sounds too eighties for me) this is simply marvellous. I wouldn't call it soul, jazz or country - it's none of that, and all of it at the same time. "Take Me Home Country Roads" is way better than John Denvers version, "Ring Of Fire" sounds better than when Johnny Cash plays it. And the list goes on and on. "You Are My Sunshine" is another classic that Ray Charles breathes new life into.
This cd-box is quite expensive, but it's worth it. Three discs or four...

Nothing Got By This Guy
It seems as if Ray kept an ear on country music throughout his life, long after the success of 1962's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. This fine package goes on for YEARS after that. And they are all very good beause of his delivery. He starts out with "Bye Bye Love" done up by both Webb Pierce and the Everly Brothers in the 50s AND "You Don't Know Me" co-written by Cindy Walker, a prolific songwriter, and its singer "Tennessee Plowboy" Eddy Arnold (although Eddy actually was sort of an early "Countrypolitan" singer with about 30 #1 hits.) The package continues on with songs by longtime writer/singer Floyd Tillman, Ted Deffan ("his "Born to Lose" and "Worried Mind" were on the 1962 album though he never made the big time himself), governor Jimmie Davis, Don Gibson, Hank Williams, Sr.,Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, The Browns, Chet Atkins, Willie Nelson; the list goes on and on. The only one I question is "What Am I Living For?", the last song of King of the Stroll Chuck Willis, a black blues shouter, before his early death. Whatever. I bet if Ray was still with us, he'd still have an ear out for country music. If you think country music is hokey--maybe sometimes it is--it isn't so when the Genius does it. Trust me.