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1962 album by Ray Charles
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two
is a 1962 album by
Ray Charles
. It is the second volume of country and western recordings by Charles following his landmark
debut
on
ABC Records
. Following the surprising success of
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
, an album of country music covers, which sold over a million copies, Charles and producer
Sid Feller
decided to do a follow-up. Unlike the previous album, where slow and fast tracks more or less alternated, this one features one side performed by the Ray Charles Big Band with
the Raelettes
, while the other side features a string section and the
Jack Halloran Singers
.
The album has been reissued on CD, coupled with Volume 1, and is also featured on
The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986
Box Set which also features the first
C & W
volume and many of Charles' later country recordings.
Critical reception
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In
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
(1992),
J. D. Considine
regarded the second
Modern Sounds
album as superior to the first, "because its balladry is smoother (as with his version of Williams's '
Your Cheatin' Heart
') and because the blues tunes rock harder (check his smouldering rendition of Gibson's 'Don't Tell Me Your Troubles')."
[3]
AllMusic
's Richard S. Ginell said it "defied the curse of the sequel and was just as much of an artistic triumph as its predecessor, if not as immediately startling".
[1]
Robert Christgau
, on the other hand, preferred the first volume, writing in
Rolling Stone
that the second was a "half a step down".
[4]
Track listing
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Singles
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Chart Information
Catalog No.
|
Song
|
R&B
|
Pop
|
ABC 10375
|
“You Are My Sunshine”
|
#1
|
#7
|
ABC 10435
|
“No Letter Today”
|
|
#105
|
ABC 10435
|
“Take These Chains from My Heart”
|
#7
|
#8
|
ABC 10375
|
"
Your Cheating Heart
"
|
#23
|
#29
|
ABC 10481
|
“Making Believe”
|
|
#102
|
References
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- ^
a
b
Ginell, Richard S. (n.d.).
"Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 2 - Ray Charles"
.
AllMusic
. Retrieved
July 30,
2018
.
- ^
Graff, Gary
; du Lac, Josh Freedom; McFarlin, Jim, eds. (1998). "Ray Charles".
MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide
.
Visible Ink Press
.
ISBN
1578590264
.
- ^
a
b
Considine, J. D.
(1992). "Ray Charles". In
DeCurtis, Anthony
; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.).
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
(3rd ed.).
Random House
. p. 126.
ISBN
0679737294
.
- ^
Christgau, Robert
(July 8, 2004).
"The Genius at Work"
.
Rolling Stone
. Retrieved
July 30,
2018
.
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