Ray Charles - Sweet & Sour Tears (50th Anniversary Collectors Series)
Ray Charles - Sweet & Sour Tears (50th Anniversary Collectors Series)
Lossless (Seperate Flac+Cue+Log) 360 Mb | Mp3@320kbps 127 Mb | Scans@300dpi 24.1 Mb
Release: 1997(Original 1964) | Label: Rhino (US) | Catalog#: 8122-72844-2
Blues, Soul | EAC Secure Rip | Total Time: 1:00:29
Lossless (Seperate Flac+Cue+Log) 360 Mb | Mp3@320kbps 127 Mb | Scans@300dpi 24.1 Mb
Release: 1997(Original 1964) | Label: Rhino (US) | Catalog#: 8122-72844-2
Blues, Soul | EAC Secure Rip | Total Time: 1:00:29
"Sweet & Sour Tears" might be a concept album in that all of the songs sung by Ray Charles on this 1964 album have the words "cry," "crying" or "tears" in the title (or related terms like "weep" and "teardrops"), but it is not exactly a thematic unity. If anything Charles likes to mix up his genres, moving from jazz to country and then to soul and pop. Overall the slow and more sentimental songs do not fare as well as the more upbeat numbers such as "Don't Cry, Baby" and "Baby, Don't You Cry" (really, those are two different songs). The best of the bunch would be "Cry Me a River," which makes some nice use of the brass section behind the vocals. These songs really make the slower tracks seem rather ponderous with their use of strings and too often the sentimentality of the songs just do not work as well.
Actually, the big surprise here is that when Rhino reissued this CD the seven bonus tracks they tacked on at the end, culled from the early part of Charles' career (1956-71), have the best songs on the album. The choices all continue the original album's crying motif and the best are the 1956 R&B track Henry Glover's "Drown in My Own Tears" and the 1964 hit "I Wake Up Crying," written by the team of Bacharach & David. They also included "Crying Time," one of the earliest "country" songs that Ray Charles recorded, although it still has blues and jazz elements in it. These bonus tracks get this album up to the 4.5 star point, but I still have to round down just because the credit goes to the producers at Rhino and not Charles. This is not one of the top ten albums you would want to include in your music library, but for fans of the late great Ray Charles it certainly deserves strong consideration for selections from the second tier.
By Lawrance M. Bernabo @ Amazon
Tracklist
1. Cry
2. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
3. Tear Fell
4. No One to Cry To
5. You've Got Me Crying Again
6. After My Laughter Came Tears
7. Teardrops from My Eyes
8. Don't Cry Baby
9. Cry Me a River
10. Baby, Don't You Cry
11. Willow, Weep for Me
12. I Cried for You
Bonus Tears
13. My Heart Cries for You
14. I Wake Up Crying
15. Drown in My Own Tears
16. Teardrops in My Heart
17. Crying Time
18. No Use Crying
19. Tired of My Tears
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Ray Charles / Sweet & Sour Tears [50th Anniversary, Rhino]
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Ray Charles / Sweet & Sour Tears [50th Anniversary, Rhino]
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