Time to take a road trip around this great country we call the US of A. And who better to be our tour guide than the incredible Ray Charles. 

He had over 1,700 listings in discogs, the website I use to catalog my vinyl collections. And it’s not easy to catalog just what genre this genius belongs to.

Well, he belongs to them all: pop, blues, jazz, gospel, country, and rock.

So get ready to hear a guy who once tried to sell an electric piano to Jake and Elwood Blues, “2,000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free!" In Volume 232: Ray on the Road.

For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Ray Charles – The Genius Hits The Road

Label: ABC-Paramount – ABC 335, ABC-Paramount – ABC-335

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono

Released: Sep 1960

Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul

Style: Rhythm & Blues

We will hear 7 of the 12 tunes on this album.

Alabamy Bound

Written-By – Bud Green, Buddy DeSylva, and Ray Henderson

Georgia On My Mind

Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell

Moonlight In Vermont

Written-By – John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf

Mississippi Mud 

Written-By – Harry Barris and James Cavanaugh

Deep In The Heart Of Texas

Written-By – Don Swander and June Hershey

California, Here I Come

Written-By – Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Meyer

Chattanooga Choo-Choo

Written-By – Harry Warren and Mack Gordon

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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