Ray Charles
Author
Publisher
Columbia Nashville Legacy
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A collection of duets performed with Johnny Cash, also featuring June Carter Cash, Lynn Anderson, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, and Willie Nelson. Music includes I've Been Everywhere; Jackson; Girl From the North Country; I Wish I Was Crazy Again; The Greatest Cowboy of Them All; and more.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A tribute to more than two dozen legendary music artists who significantly influenced the landscape of music for generations to come, from Ray Charles and Bob Dylan to Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash.
Language
English
Description
After Jake Blues is released from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big...
Series
Library of America volume 95
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt,...
18) Ray
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
Publisher
Vulcan Productions
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Director, actor and piano-player Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical acts as well as interviews and performances by such living legends as Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Dr. John.