Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Bye Bye, Love
2. You Don't Know Me
3. Half as Much
4. I Love You So Much It Hurts
5. Just a Little Lovin'
6. Born to Lose
7. Worried Mind
8. It Makes No Difference Now
9. You Win Again
10. Careless Love
11. I Can't Stop Loving You
12. Hey, Good Lookin'
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. No Letter Today
15. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
16. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
17. Midnight
18. Oh, Lonesome Me
19. Take These Chains From My Heart
20. Your Cheating Heart
21. I'll Never Stand in Your Way
22. Making Believe
23. Teardrops in My Heart
24. Hang Your Head in Shame
DISC 2:
1. I'm Movin' On
2. Busted
3. No One to Cry To
4. Move It on Over
5. Love's Gonna Live Here (Swingova)
6. I'm a Fool to Care
7. Crying Time
8. Together Again
9. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (Swingova)
10. I Don't Care
11. Blue Moon of Kentucky (Swingova)
12. Don't Let Her Know
13. Please Say You're Fooling
14. She's Lonesome Again
15. Born Loser, A
16. Girl I Used to Know, A
17. Here We Go Again
18. When I Stop Dreamin'
19. If You Were Mine
20. Your Love Is So Doggone Good
21. Don't Change on Me
22. Till I Can't Take It Anymore
23. You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
24. I Keep It Hid
25. Sweet Memories
26. Good Morning Dear
27. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
DISC 3:
1. Ring of Fire
2. What Am I Living For
3. Three Bells, The
4. All I Ever Need Is You
5. Wichita Lineman
6. Down in the Valley
7. Take Me Home, Country Roads
8. Never Ending Song of Love
9. Come Live With Me
10. Sunshine
11. We Had It All
12. Love Me Tonight, (Turn Out the Light and)
13. I Wish You Were Here Tonight
14. Ain't Your Memory Got No Pride at All
15. Born to Love Me
16. I Don't Want No Stranger Sleepin' in My Bed
17. Let Your Love Flow
18. You Feel Good All Over
19. You've Got the Longest Leaving Act in Town
20. String Bean
DISC 4:
1. 3/4 Time
2. Shakin' Your Head
3. I Had It All
4. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
5. Woman Sensuous Woman
6. Then I'll Be Over You
7. If I Were You
8. Workin' Man's Woman
9. Two Old Cats Like Us - (with Hank Williams Jr.)
10. This Old Heart (Is Gonna Rise Again) - (with The Oak Ridge Boys)
11. We Didn't See a Thing - (with George Jones/Chet Atkins)
12. Who Cares - (with Janie Fricke)
13. Friendship - (with Ricky Skaggs)
14. It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind - (with Mickey Gilley)
15. Little Hotel Room - (with Merle Haggard)
16. Crazy Old Soldier - (with Johnny Cash)
17. Seven Spanish Angels - (with Willie Nelson)
18. Pages of My Mind, The
19. Slip Away
20. Anybody With the Blues
21. Little Bit of Heaven, A
22. Dixie Moon
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Hank Williams, Jr., Janie Fricke, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Mickey Gilley, Ricky Scaggs, Ricky Skaggs, The Oak Ridge Boys, Willie Nelson | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Contains both MODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC albums, most of DO I EVER CROSS YOUR MIND and FRIENDSHIP, as well as miscellaneous tracks.
Personnel includes: Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., The Oak Ridge Boys, Janie Fricke, Merle Haggard, Ricky Scaggs, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, George Jones.
Compilation producers: Ray Charles, James Austin, Terry Howard, Michael Johnson.
Includes liner notes by Raul Malo, Sid Feller and Daniel Cooper.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
THE COMPLETE COUNTRY & WESTERN RECORDINGS 1959-1986 was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes and for Best Historical Album.
When Ray Charles signed his precedent-shattering contract with ABC-Paramount in 1959, he was determined to make good on an early ambition to be the most versatile recording artist the music business had ever known. Charles got to work at his new label right away, producing hits like "Georgia On My Mind" and "Hit the Road Jack" along with the classic duet album with Betty Carter in 1961. But it wasn't till 1962's MODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC VOLS. 1 & 2 that Charles surpassed industry expectations.
This four-CD Rhino anthology includes both of the classic MODERN SOUNDS albums as well as every country song recorded during Charles' subsequent career, including various raffish '80s duets with such legends as Hank Williams Jr., George Jones and Willie Nelson. Looking back, the most remarkable thing about Charles' country output wasn't that a southern soul artist would have a winning way with a country tune. Rather, it was that Charles popularized "pure" country music for the nation at large, black and white alike.
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