Roots of R&B: Charles Brown & Ray Charles

Roots of R&B: Charles Brown & Ray Charles

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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with keyfigures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. We listen back to a 1989 interview with singer and pianistCharles Brown. Brown iscredited with creating an expressive style of music that blended rough Texasblues with the soft glamour of Hollywood. And we revisit a 1998 interview withsoul singer Ray Charles, who helped shape American music, beginning with his1955 hit, “I Got a Woman.”

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