Brother Ray Ray Charles' Own Story
by Ritz, David; Charles, RayFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-27
Publisher(s): Da Capo
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Summary
Ray Charles has led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the prevailing racism of the time, by the age of thirty-two Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and even country music, he invented, almost single-handed, what became know as soul. And over a career spanning close to fifty years, Ray Charles has remained in complete control over his life and music, allowing nobody to tell him what to do.
Author Biography
David Ritz is the author of Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye, and many other books with or about Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and B.B. King. He is a three-time winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. He lives in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction to the 2003 Edition | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. xii |
| Home | p. 3 |
| Going Blind | p. 15 |
| First Year at School | p. 20 |
| Summertime in Greensville | p. 27 |
| Back to School | p. 34 |
| Summers in Tallahassee | p. 46 |
| Making Out | p. 52 |
| Suffering | p. 58 |
| Scuffling in Jacksonville | p. 66 |
| Hungry in Orlando | p. 75 |
| Floppin' Round Tampa | p. 84 |
| Moving Cross-Country | p. 94 |
| Fooling with Drugs | p. 108 |
| Down to L.A. | p. 114 |
| The Road | p. 118 |
| Struggling as a Single | p. 134 |
| Texas | p. 145 |
| Roughing It | p. 153 |
| Family Dreams | p. 158 |
| Leading | p. 162 |
| The Girls | p. 167 |
| Fooling, Drowning, Hallelujahing | p. 173 |
| Whiskey and Watermelon | p. 180 |
| Widening the Range | p. 189 |
| Busted Again | p. 198 |
| Keeping Track of the Change | p. 204 |
| Too Close for Comfort | p. 213 |
| Back to the Country | p. 219 |
| For the Love of Women | p. 230 |
| Loosening Up | p. 239 |
| Wising Up | p. 246 |
| The Bad Bust | p. 252 |
| Kicking | p. 256 |
| Sentencing | p. 262 |
| Coming Back | p. 267 |
| Following a Leader | p. 271 |
| The Scene Abroad | p. 277 |
| B and Me | p. 283 |
| Working on the Building | p. 286 |
| Living and Dying | p. 295 |
| Nothing New | p. 303 |
| Little Bit of Soul | p. 307 |
| Afterword | p. 310 |
| Epilogue | p. 318 |
| Discography and Notes | p. 322 |
| Pre-Atlantic | p. 322 |
| Atlantic | p. 326 |
| ABC | p. 333 |
| Tangerine/Crossover and Miscellaneous | p. 340 |
| 1978-1991 | p. 344 |
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