Ray Charles – Come Live With Me (CD)
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Ray Charles launched his own Tangerine Records in the early 1960s, one of the first major Black artists to own his label outright, and that hard-won independence shaped everything he recorded under its banner. Come Live With Me, from 1974, arrived at a moment when Charles was operating entirely on his own terms, blending country, soul, pop, and jazz with the quiet confidence of a man who answered to no one.
RAY CHARLES - Come Live With Me (First Vinyl Reissue In Over 50 Years - CD - Come Live With Me represents a creative peak that sounds fresher in 2025 than it may have in 1974. The first album on his Crossover label, it lives up to the label's name by showcasing the man's singular ability to cross over to any audience by making songs from any time or genre undeniably his own. Each side of Come Live With Me sets a seamless mood: Side 1 is a romantic suite of lush, latenight ballads, while a non-stop soul party is cooking on side 2. This two-sides-of-a-Saturday-night concept let's Ray Charles blend modern sounds and timeless traditions in ways no other artist ever could. Removed from the trappings and tropes of the mid-'70s music scene, and fully restored and remastered in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation, Come Live With Me is finally ready to be appreciated as the masterpiece it always was.
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UPC: 708857224029
Label: Tangerine Records
Release Date: 8.22.25
Format: CD