Playboy Interview: Ray Charles

Playboy Interview: Ray CharlesRay Charles has been an international institution for so long that only a handful of those under 30 can remember when the singer-instrumentalist-band-leader-businessman wasn't looming over the music scene in such outsized dimensions as to appear more myth than man. By any measure the dean of the current soul movement, Charles has the ability to reduce the diverse idioms of blues, country-and-western, jazz, rhythm-and-blues and rock to an emotional common denominator...