Roots of R&B: Charles Brown & Ray Charles
All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key
figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. We listen back to a 1989 interview with singer and pianist
Charles Brown. Brown is
credited with creating an expressive style of music that blended rough Texas
blues with the soft glamour of Hollywood. And we revisit a 1998 interview with
soul singer Ray Charles, who helped shape American music, beginning with his
1955 hit, “I Got a Woman.”
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