Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music [LP] (180 Gram)

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American recording artist Ray Charles, released in April 1962. A departure from Charles's previous work, the album features country, folk, and Western music standards covered and redone by Charles in popular song forms of the time, including rhythm and blues, pop, and jazz. Regarded by many critics as Ray Charles best studio album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been considered by several music writers to be a landmark album in American music. The album's integration of soul and country music bent racial barriers in popular music, amid the height of the African-American civil rights struggle. In the process of recording the album, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to exercise complete artistic control over his own recording career.