Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two is a 1962 album by Ray Charles. It is the second volume of country and western recordings by Charles following his landmark debut on ABC Records. Following the surprising success of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, an album of country music covers, which sold over a million copies, Charles and producer Sid Feller decided to do a follow-up. Unlike the previous album, where slow and fast tracks more or less alternated, this one features one side performed by the Ray Charles Big Band with the Raelettes, while the other side features a string section and the Jack Halloran Singers.
The album has been reissued on CD, coupled with Volume 1, and is also featured on The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 Box Set which also features the first C & W volume and many of Charles' later country recordings.
Critical reception
In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), J. D. Considine regarded the second Modern Sounds album as superior to the first, "because its balladry is smoother (as with his version of Williams's 'Your Cheatin' Heart') and because the blues tunes rock harder (check his smouldering rendition of Gibson's 'Don't Tell Me Your Troubles')."[4] AllMusic's Richard S. Ginell said it "defied the curse of the sequel and was just as much of an artistic triumph as its predecessor, if not as immediately startling".[1] Robert Christgau, on the other hand, preferred the first volume, writing in Rolling Stone that the second was a "half a step down".[5]
Singles
Chart Information
Catalog No. | Song | R&B | Pop |
ABC 10375 | “You Are My Sunshine” | #1 | #7 |
ABC 10435 | “No Letter Today” | | #105 |
ABC 10435 | “Take These Chains from My Heart” | #7 | #8 |
ABC 10375 | “Your Cheating Heart” | #23 | #29 |
ABC 10481 | “Your Cheating Heart” | | #102 |
References
- 1 2 Ginell, Richard S. (n.d.). "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 2 - Ray Charles". AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ↑ Anon. (n.d.). "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Vol. 2". Acclaimed Music. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ↑ Graff, Gary; du Lac, Josh Freedom; McFarlin, Jim, eds. (1998). "Ray Charles". MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 1578590264.
- 1 2 Considine, J. D. (1992). "Ray Charles". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly. The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 126. ISBN 0679737294.
- ↑ Christgau, Robert (July 8, 2004). "The Genius at Work". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
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- Wish You Were Here Tonight
- Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
- Friendship
- The Spirit of Christmas
- From the Pages of My Mind
- Just Between Us
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- Songs of Experience (for David Axelrod, released 1969)
- Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (for Ray Charles, 1962)
- Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two (for Ray Charles, 1962)
- Have a Smile with Me (for Ray Charles, 1964)
- You're the Reason I'm Living (for Bobby Darin, 1962–63)
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (for Ella Fitzgerald, 1970)
- Live at Carnegie Hall (for Al Hirt, released 1965)
- Feeling Good (for Julie London, released 1965)
- Les McCann Sings (1961)
- Electric Connection (for Jean-Luc Ponty, released 1969)
- Sarah Sings Soulfully (for Sarah Vaughan, 1963)
- Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues (for Nancy Wilson, 1963)
- Broadway – My Way (for Nancy Wilson, 1964)
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