![]() While not quite the monstrosity it could have been - posthumous duets albums like this always bear an unsettling ghoulish undertow - Genius and Friends is also not a particularly good album either. This included bringing in singers to record their parts, since apart from two tracks - a 1994 duet with Diana Ross on "Big Bad Love" and a live 1991 version of "Busted" with Willie Nelson (taken from the television special Ray Charles: 50 Years in Music) - these are all studio constructions, with vocalists duetting with a previously recorded Ray. Austin found the tapes, but Charles was too sick to work on them, so after his passing - and after his final studio album, the duets record Genius Loves Company, became a number one hit in August of 2004 - Atlantic/Rhino decided to finish off the project, bringing in producer Phil Ramone to oversee the completion of the album. ![]() ![]() According to James Austin's liner notes, Charles called Austin in December of 2003, asking if he could find the masters to an unreleased duets record Ray recorded in 19. Atlantic/Rhino's 2005 Genius and Friends is the end result of a project Ray Charles initiated a few months before his death in June 2004.
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