Ray Charles: O-Genio: Live In Brazil 1963
Terry Staunton, Record Collector, March 2005
AFTER LAST YEAR'S duets album became the best-selling release of his career, coupled with the Oscar buzz surrounding the new biopic, it was inevitable that a glut of Ray Charles product would find its way to the shops. The fact that he's also relatively recently dead hasn't harmed the cash-in merchants either.
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