Rhino / Wea
2005
More Music From Ray
About This Album
Ever since Dirty Dancing in the late '80s, it has been an industry custom to follow a hit soundtrack with a sequel a few months after the original turned into a hit. By the mid-2000s, this practice was standard, and labels held back material from the original for the sequel, which would nevertheless pale in comparison to the original since, apart from that handful of songs, the rest of the material felt a little scraped together. Given this pattern, it would be easy to assume that More Music from Ray, the 2005 sequel to the soundtrack to the 2004 Ray Charles biopic, would seem like a lesser effort to the original, but this overlooks one key fact: the original source material was not a bunch of songs that had a tenuous connection to the film (as is the case with most soundtracks); rather, the music was integral to the film itself. Plus, the music itself came from Charles' classic recordings for Atlantic and ABC from the '50s and '60s, which is among the greatest music of the 20th century, so it's pretty hard to get a second soundtrack to Ray wrong, and More Music from Ray proves to be every bit as terrific as the original. There is an element of this being a Greatest Hits, Vol.
Track List

Disc 1 (try tracks 1,5,8,9,11,13,16 and 17)

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