Albany, Georgia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Chapters: Albany, Georgia metropolitan area, Buildings and structures in Albany, Georgia, Media in Albany, Georgia, People from Albany, Georgia, Ray Charles, Smithville, Georgia, Baker County, Georgia, Putney, Georgia, Lee County, Georgia, Leesburg, Georgia, Dougherty County, Georgia, Terrell County, Georgia, Parrott, Georgia, Worth County, Georgia, Poulan, Georgia, Sumner, Georgia, Sylvester, Georgia, Dawson, Georgia, Sasser, Georgia, Bronwood, Georgia, Warwick, Georgia, Albany State University, Nancy Lopez, Turner Air Force Base, Bobby Rush, Paula Deen, WALB, Deion Branch, Ray Knight, WSWG, Field Mob, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Brian Fricke, Wallingford Riegger, Harry James, The Parks at Chehaw (Albany, Georgia), Mark Taylor, Darton College, Morris Solomon, Jr., Thomas J. Hennen, Jo Marie Payton, Hamilton Jordan, Angelo Taylor, Ken Hodges, William L. Dawson, Reginald D. Hunter, Russell Malone, WALB-DT2, Flint RiverQuarium, Osceola Macarthy Adams, Jim Fowler, Michael Catt, Alexander Johnson, Edward Gnehm, Chevene Bowers King, Danny Breeden, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Hal Breeden, Gary Ellerson, Dontonio Wingfield, Fernando Bryant, Chann McRae, Albany Polecats, South Georgia Waves, Dallas Davidson, Sherwood Christian Academy, Frosty Wooldridge, Albany Museum of Art, Nelson Tift, Alice Coachman, Kregg Lumpkin, Lionel James, Amelia Marshall, Montavious Stanley, Troy Reddick, Kurt Quarterman, Gray Civic Center, Tom Pennington, Michael Reid, Edward Vason Jones, Radium Springs, Georgia, Derrick Moore, Paul Preuss, Israel Route, Gary Lee, Eddie Johnson, Albany Panthers, Albany Municipal Auditorium, Donald Laster, Rosenberg Brothers Department Store, Chris Norman, Paul Eames Sports Complex, Nellie Brimberry, Albany Transit System, The Albany Herald, Confederate Memorial Park (Albany, Georgia), Ben Clyde, John A. Davis House, Royal Air Force Memorial (Albany, Georgia), Theatre Albany. Excerpt: Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles "the only true genius in show business." Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?" Ray Charles Robinson was the son of Aretha Williams, a sharecropper, and Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, mechanic and handyman. Aretha Williams was a devout Christian and the family attended the New Shiloh Baptist Church. When Ray was an infant, his family moved from Albany, Georgia, where he was born, to the poor black community o...