June 12, 2004
Unchained
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That's how I prefer to remember him, as opposed to this. The man was one of the 10 most important musical figures of the 20th century, which is saying an awful lot. |
That's perfect. I bet Ray had lots of ladies take his arm like that.
Have to admit I felt guilty linking to those cheesy slot machines, but gotta add weird links when you find them. No disrespect to the Man. Isn't it a measure of greatness when someone can get away w/ such outrageous lapses of judgment? Damn, there I go again . . .
Posted by: VC at June 17, 2004 11:37 PMWhile trying to find online lyrics to a Boz Scaggs song ('Sierra'), I found this nice bit about Boz seeing Brother Ray...
excerpted from:
http://aouv.free.fr/Boz-Scaggs-The-Lowdown.html
When he was 15, Boz attended a Ray Charles concert in Dallas. In 1960, Brother Ray was on a roll with “The Right Time,” “What’d I Say,” and “Let the Good Times Roll,” and his stage show, a potent mix of jazz and R&B with vocal spice from the Raelettes, was built to kill. Boz was sitting next to a woman who, clearly lost in the joy of the music, suddenly grabbed his arm and held it tight.
“It was a transcendent moment,” he said. “ The music was everything. It gave me some hint, some clue, to what my life might be like if my life was perfect,” he said.
Posted by: deano at June 17, 2004 10:26 AM