“Your Love is so Doggone Good”
Ray Charles “Love Country Style” ABC/Tangerine Records (1970) I heard someone say that they fall in love at least once a day. I do too. Today this song says it all to the one I love. Isaac Hayes does it his way on the “Black Moses” LP, but this one from Ray’s country and western catalog, (which he returned to throughout his long career), is today’s source of sweet inspiration.
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July 11th, 2010 at 11:38 am
I LOVE this man!!!
July 12th, 2010 at 9:42 am
To me, this cut mixes tender devotion with darker sentiments (fear, desire for control) in a way that only a genius like Brother Ray can achieve.
July 14th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Got to share a great Ray Charles story I heard. He was playing at a hotel nightclub, and some heckler in the audience was being really disruptive. When Ray stopped the show to ask the guy to pipe down, the heckler said he’d beat him up. The heckler’s friends tried to talk him out of beating up a blind guy, but Ray said, “You want to fight me, you can fight me. The doorman will give you my room number; you can come up five minutes after I finish this set.”
So Ray finishes his show and goes up to his room. Five minutes later there’s a knock at the door. He answers it. “You here to fight me?”
“Yeah!”
“Come on in.” He shows the heckler into his room, closes the door — and switches off the lights.
NEVER mess with a blind guy!
July 14th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
That’s a coincidence… I was at a Stevie Wonder concert… LOL!
July 14th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
In 1992, I was backstage at Lincoln Center at a Ray Charles concert. The dressing room hallway was lined with guests waiting to see Ray after the show. Ray walked down the hall his hand on his handler’s shoulder. He must have passed ten or fifteen men in a row without a pause, suddenly he stopped, turned to the girl next to me, flashed his big smile and said “How you doin’, baby!” He may have been blind, but he sure had a nose for the ladies!