The Atlantic Years - In Mono (USA-import)
For this new collection, the following albums have been fully remastered from the original mono analog tapes, echoing the experience of the era, when most fans were hearing music on record players, jukeboxes and radios that played music monaurally: Ray Charles (1957), The Great Ray Charles (1957), Yes, Indeed! (1958), What’d I Say (1959), The Genius Of Ray Charles (1959), The Genius After Hours (1961), and The Genius Sings The Blues (1961). Presented in an elegant hardbound box, each album is pressed on high-quality, 180-gram vinyl and packaged in sleeves that replicate the original releases in exacting detail. The set also includes a perfectbound booklet with period photos by Atlantic’s in-house photographer at the time, Lee Friedlander, and liner notes by Ray Charles biographer and Grammy®-winning writer David Ritz.