Ray Charles' Tangerine Masters Series continues

The next release is 1974’s Come Live With Me

Founded by Ray Charles in the 1960s, Tangerine Records is proud to celebrate the 17-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist’s singular legacy with the 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.

The Tangerine Masters Series continues with the reissue of 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.

Remastered by five-time Grammy Award-winning engineer Michael Graves and acclaimed vinyl mastering engineer Jeff Powell, Come Live With Me showcases Charles in full ’70s crossover mode, embracing everything from string-laden arrangements, country-tinged ballads, and soulful soft rock to R&B and funk. At a time when R&B was defined by the politically charged, genre-blending work of Sly Stone, Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles didn’t chase trends. Instead, he carved his own path, doing something entirely his own.

Next up in the Tangerine Master Series is 1963’s milestone Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, available at all DSPs and on vinyl for the first time in more than half a century beginning Friday, September 19th.

A top 10 stew of jazz, soul, and pop standards highlighted by the Grammy Award-winning, Top 5 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, 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, and its first appearance on CD since the 1990s, now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.

In the early ’60s, just one pop hit – the revolutionary “What’d I Say” – into his career, Ray Charles realized he’d outgrown the traditional music business. Risking everything to secure his creative and financial independence, he negotiated a deal that reshaped the industry, granting him full control and ownership of his recordings and the means to build his own publishing company, recording studio, and business offices. Recording what he wanted, when he wanted, Ray Charles would answer to nobody but himself. This is where the story of Tangerine Records begins, created by Ray Charles to achieve greatness on his own terms, and the label that remains the only authorized home of some of his greatest works.

The Tangerine Master Series will also see reissues of such masterpieces as 1970s Love Country Style, one of the finest examples of Charles’ country crossover work and out of print since its original release, and 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.