Ray Charles – Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul (CD)
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Originally released in 1963, "Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul" arrived at the peak of Charles's creative powers, a moment when he had already reshaped R&B, country, and pop on his own terms. The Tangerine Records imprint was Charles's own label, giving him rare artistic and business control that few Black artists of that era commanded, and the music reflects exactly that freedom.
Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didn't so much ignore genres, but, by the '60s, had become a genre unto himself. An academic might want to separate this stack of songs into neat little buckets-country, jazz, standards, blues, pop-but those are just the ingredients. Ray Charles sings whatever he likes and whatever he sings comes out as a Ray Charles song, with a flavor all it's own. Two hit singles, "Busted" and "That Lucky Old Sun," made Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul an instant Top Ten when it was released in 1963. Bootlegged across Europe for decades, this is the fi rst and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl (and it's fi rst appearance on CD since the 1990s), now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.
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UPC: 708857224425
Label: Tangerine Records
Release Date: 9.19.25
Format: CD