Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul CD

2012 collection. When Ray Charles recorded his groundbreaking Modern Sounds in Country And Western Music album in 1962 he was paying tribute to the music he had grown up hearing as often as Blues and R&B. The 23 tracks in Kent's new compilation take their cue from what Brother Ray accomplished and provide a superb illustration of what can happen Behind Closed Doors: When Country Meets Soul. Most of the artists featured here would have heard Country music in their youth as often as Ray Charles, thanks to the big 50,000 watt radio stations that could be heard from state to state across the lower half of the US. Most of them recorded in the southern studios, and often used pickers from the pool of musicians who worked on Country sessions in Memphis, Nashville and Muscle Shoals. It's no surprise that they all sounded as at home with a Country song as they did with a straight-ahead slice of Soul. Kent Records.

1. The Grand Tour - Aaron Neville 2. He'll Have to Go - Solomon Burke 3. Take Time to Know Her - Percy Sledge 4. I Saw Me - Esther Phillips 5. My Elusive Dreams - Moses ; Joshua Dillard 6. Hangin' on - Ann Peebles 7. My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Bobby Sheen 8. Wings Upon Your Horns - Tami Lynn 9. Before the Next Teardrop Falls - the Limelites 10. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Al Green 11. Life Turned Her That Way - James Carr 12. He Called Me Baby - Candi Staton 13. The Chokin' Kind - Z Z Hill 14. Yours Love - Joe Simon 15. Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad - Cookie Jackson 16. Detroit City - Arthur Alexander 17. Gentle on My Mind - Tony Borders 18. Don't Touch Me - Bettye Swann 19. Set Me Free - Clarence Carter 20. Behind Closed Doors - Little Milton 21. If You're Not Back in Love By Monday (Alternate Vocal Mix) - Millie Jackson 22. Skip a Rope - Joe Tex 23. She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye - Brook Benton