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Brother Ray

Ray Charles' Own Story

By: David Ritz, Ray Charles

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Paperback | 27 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, 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 and couldn't do.As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."

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Barnes & Noble Review, 2/17/12 "One of David Ritz's finest r&b as-told-tos...Rich in insight as well as incident."

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction to the 2003 Edition	p. viii
Introduction	p. xii
Home	p. 3
Going Blind	p. 15
First Year at School	p. 20
Summertime in Greensville	p. 27
Back to School	p. 34
Summers in Tallahassee	p. 46
Making Out	p. 52
Suffering	p. 58
Scuffling in Jacksonville	p. 66
Hungry in Orlando	p. 75
Floppin' Round Tampa	p. 84
Moving Cross-Country	p. 94
Fooling with Drugs	p. 108
Down to L.A.	p. 114
The Road	p. 118
Struggling as a Single	p. 134
Texas	p. 145
Roughing It	p. 153
Family Dreams	p. 158
Leading	p. 162
The Girls	p. 167
Fooling, Drowning, Hallelujahing	p. 173
Whiskey and Watermelon	p. 180
Widening the Range	p. 189
Busted Again	p. 198
Keeping Track of the Change	p. 204
Too Close for Comfort	p. 213
Back to the Country	p. 219
For the Love of Women	p. 230
Loosening Up	p. 239
Wising Up	p. 246
The Bad Bust	p. 252
Kicking	p. 256
Sentencing	p. 262
Coming Back	p. 267
Following a Leader	p. 271
The Scene Abroad	p. 277
B and Me	p. 283
Working on the Building	p. 286
Living and Dying	p. 295
Nothing New	p. 303
Little Bit of Soul	p. 307
Afterword	p. 310
Epilogue	p. 318
Discography and Notes	p. 322
Pre-Atlantic	p. 322
Atlantic	p. 326
ABC	p. 333
Tangerine/Crossover and Miscellaneous	p. 340
1978-1991	p. 344
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