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 known 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. Brother Ray was first published to great critical acclaim in 1978, and has since attained the status of a classic. In an inimitable and unsparing voice, Ray Charles here tells his whole story, from the details of his sex life and drug use to the chronicle of his musical development. Supplemented with a new epilogue updating his story to the present day, and including a complete discography, Brother Ray is as engaging, frank, funny, and soulful as Ray Charles's enduring music.

Brother Ray

Biographies & Memoirs

Ritz, David

Charles., Ray

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (Raven)

Ray Charles is one of the most gifted and influential musicians of our century. By combining gospel, jazz, blues, and country, he helped invent what would become known as soul. An "unsparingly personal document that bears a striking resemblance to Ray Charles sitting around with close friends rapping" ( L.A. Times ), Brother Ray is as engaging, frank, and soulful as Charles' music.

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

The world-famous musician talks about his childhood, his blindness, the years on the road developing and perfecting his musical style, and his attitudes toward women, drugs, religion, and death

Brother Ray: Ray Charles Own Story

Arts & Photography

Music

DOUBLEDAY

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

This collectible songbook celebrates the enduring legacy of Ray Charles at the 80th anniversary of his birth. Each sheet music transcription accurately renders his signature piano riffs and solos, and provides lyrics, vocal melodies, and chord changes. Ray Charles had three simple words of advice for achieving success: "Practice, practice, practice." With 28 fun and challenging transcriptions of some of popular music's most enduring standards, this collection gives pianists the opportunity to practice the techniques of the "Genius" himself. Titles: * Ain't That Love * America the Beautiful * Busted * Christmas in My Heart * Come Rain or Come Shine * Crazy Love * Georgia on My Mind * Hallelujah I Love Her So * Here We Go Again * Hit the Road Jack * I Can't Stop Loving You * I've Got a Woman * Let the Good Times Roll * Let's Go Get Stoned * Mary Ann * Mess Around * Night Time Is the Right Time * One Mint Julep * Over the Rainbow * Ruby * Seven Spanish Angels * Sinner's Prayer * That Lucky Old Sun * That Spirit of Christmas * This Little Girl of Mine * Unchain My Heart * What'd I Say * You Don't Know Me.

The Ray Charles 80th Anniversary Sheet Music Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Alfred Music

Includes David Ritz's moving account of "The Last Days of Brother Ray" and an updated discography

Blackstone Pub

The world-famous musician talks about his childhood, his blindness, the years on the road developing and perfecting his musical style, and his attitudes toward women, drugs, religion, and death.

Brother Ray Lib/E: Ray Charles' Own Story

Humor & Entertainment

Blackstone Publishing

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as “soul.” And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could or couldn’t do.

Blackstone Audiobooks

John Chamberlain rose to prominence in the late 1950s with energetic, vibrant sculptures hewn from disused car parts, achieving a three-dimensional form of Abstract Expressionism that astounded critics and captured the imaginations of fellow artists. For a seven-year period in the mid-1960s, the artist abandoned automotive metal and turned to other materials. Motivated by scientific curiosity, Chamberlain produced sculptures in unorthodox media, such as urethene foam, galvanized steel, paper bags, mineral-coated Plexiglas and aluminum foil. Since returning in 1972 to metal as his primary material, Chamberlain limited himself to specific parts of the automobile, adding color to found car parts, dripping, spraying and patterning on top of existing hues to an often wild effect. In recent years, the artist has embarked on the production of a new body of work that demonstrates a decided return to earlier themes. John Chamberlain: Choices accompanies the Guggenheim Museum exhibition, which comprises 95 works, from the artist’s earliest monochromatic iron sculptures to the outsized foil creations he is working on today, encompassing shifts in scale, material and methods informed by the collage process that has been central to Chamberlain’s working method. This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays by Susan Davidson, Donna De Salvo, Dave Hickey, Adrian Kohn and Charles Ray with an extensive chronology by Helen Hsu and a lexicon by Don Quaintance.

John Chamberlain: Choices

Dave Hickey

John Chamberlain

Donna De Salvo

Adrian Kohn

Reference

Guggenheim Museum Publications

Charles Ray chronicles the California artist s early sculptural work from 1986 through 1990. Along with images of many of the Ray s important pieces from the period are two interviews conducted by the curators of the exhibit with the artist. The humor and quirkiness Ray brings to his art has made him an influential force in today s contemporary art world. Published in 1990 by The Newport Harbor Art Museum. Now called the Orange County Museum of Art.

Charles Ray: Interviews by Lucinda Barnes and Dennis Cooper (an exhibition catalogue)

Dennis Cooper

Lucinda Barnes

Individual Artists

Newport Harbor Art Museum

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Brother Ray

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Brother Ray: Ray Charles Own Story

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

The Ray Charles 80th Anniversary Sheet Music Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Brother Ray Lib/E: Ray Charles' Own Story

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

John Chamberlain: Choices

Charles Ray: Interviews by Lucinda Barnes and Dennis Cooper (an exhibition catalogue)