Ray Charles' 'Love Country Style' to be reissued

Previously out-of-print albums are getting new life on vinyl

Tangerine Records, founded by the late Ray Charles, will reissue his out-of-print classic, Love Country Style, for the first time since its 1970 release, on vinyl on October 24th. The release is part of the label’s Tangerine Master Series, a new slate of reissues highlighting Charles’ best-known music alongside classic records long out of print, and ready for rediscovery. Each album has been restored and remastered under the direct supervision of The Ray Charles Foundation, painting a vivid new portrait of an artist and icon whose impact continues to expand and inspire.

A fan favorite that’s one of the finest examples of Charles’ crossover work, Love Country Style is the most soulful of his country records, as well as arguably the album that’s the most connected to the current sound of today’s country superstars. The album finds Charles once again embracing his love for the genre by delivering heartfelt renditions of songs by Mickey Newbury and Jimmy Webb with his signature blend of soul and sophistication. Backed by lush gospel-tinged arrangements, songs like his iconic version of “Ring of Fire” and “Don’t Change On Me” (which hit the top 20 at R&B as well as the overall top 40) highlight Charles’s unrivaled ability to transform country standards into something unmistakably his own. Out of print since its original release more than 50 years ago, Love Country Style now finally returns, fully restored and remastered in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation.

The Tangerine Master Series will also see reissues of such masterpieces as No One Does It Like…Ray Charles! – The Great Ray Charles Album That Should Have Been, a previously uncompiled collection of singles circa 1962-1965, released for the first time as a cohesive body of work, offering a rare glimpse into a prolific and creatively explosive period in Charles’ multi-decade career.

The series continues with today’s (Fri, Sept 19th) release of Charles’ long-overdue reissue of 1963’s milestone Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul, available now at all DSPs, on CD, and vinyl for the first time in more than half a century. A top ten stew of jazz, soul, and pop standards highlighted by the Grammy Award-winning, top five hit, “Busted,” as well as the top 20 favorite, “That Old Lucky Sun,” Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul made it abundantly clear that by the 1960s, Ray Charles didn’t so much ignore genres, but had become a genre unto himself. Bootlegged across Europe for decades, this is the first and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl – as well as its first appearance on CD since the 1990s – now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.

Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul follows the Tangerine Master Series’ recent release of a newly remastered edition of 1974’s Come Live With Me, a blend of pop and gospel-infused soul that sees Charles demonstrating his unmatched versatility available now at all DSPs and on vinyl for the first time in over 50 years; a CD edition arrives on Friday, September 26th.