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Submit Your ReviewOnce he signed to Warner Bros., Ray Charles adopted the '90s superstar schedule, releasing an album every three years. Strong Love Affair, the third of them (now on Quincy Jones's custom label, Qwest), is a self-production that finds Charles performing his usual mix of blues, R&B, and pop on a set of newly written songs. The material is serviceable, if generic, but what matters is Charles's typically expressive vocal performance. At 65, Charles may no longer be able to surprise us, but he doesn't seem ready to retire, and if new recordings from him risk redundancy and irrelevance, at their best they nevertheless can represent Charles as well as his earlier, revolutionary work. Strong Love Affair never tries to conform Charles to anything other than his eclectic self, and it never gets in his way. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Strong Love Affair
01/30/1996
All Music Guide Review
Strong Love Affair Track Listing
Credits of Strong Love Affair
- Phil Magnotti
- Assistant Engineer
- Peter Mark
- Assistant Engineer
- Richard Niles
- Arranger, Keyboards, Horn Arrangements
- David O'Higgins
- Sax (Tenor)
- Billy Osborne
- Programming
- Peter Oxer
- Violin
- Phil Palmer
- Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar
- Anthony Pleeth
- Cello
- Gerard Presencer
- Trumpet
- Maciej Rakowski
- Violin
- Hubert Salou
- Assistant Engineer
- Jonn Savannah
- Vocals (Background)
- Doug Sax
- Mastering
- Sonia Slany
- Violin
- Don Snow
- Keyboards
- Phil Spalding
- Bass, Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background)
- Paul Spong
- Trumpet
- Lee Thornburg
- Trombone, Trumpet
- C. Thompson
- Vocals (Background)
- Patrice Tison
- Guitar
- Neal Wilkinson
- Drums
- Bjorg Vaernes
- Cello
- Øyvor Volle
- Violin
- Bill Benham
- Violin
- Jean-Pierre Grosz
- Producer
- Terry Howard
- Assistant Engineer
- Berit Vaernes
- Violin
- Peter Lale
- Viola
- Michael Bigwood
- Engineer
- Hannah Clive
- Vocals (Background)
- Molly Ducan
- Sax (Tenor)
- Rosemary Furness
- Violin
- Patrick Kiernan
- Violin
- Knut Koppang
- Piano
- Boguslaw Kostecki
- Violin
- Herve Krief
- Guitar
- Nguyên Lê
- Guitar
- Basil Leroux
- Guitar
- Malcolm Maddock
- Organ, Piano
- Yves N'Joke
- Guitar
- Jean-Louis Odin
- Cello
- Quatuor Odin
- Strings
- Nell Sidnell
- Trombone
- Strings Unlimited
- Strings
- Mark Sullivan
- Guitar
- Nora Tallsdal
- Viola
- Kame Wilkinson
- Viola
- Mark Hanauer
- Photography
- Greg Adams
- Trumpet, Horn Arrangements, Arranger
- Roger Robindore
- Assistant Engineer
- Ruadhri Cushnan
- Assistant Engineer
- William Benham
- Violin
- Ulf Holand
- Assistant Engineer
- Allan Krohn
- Assistant Engineer
- Jean-Loup Morette
- Assistant Engineer
- Mark Robinson
- Assistant Engineer
- Sonia Slaney
- Violin
- Djemel Nadji
- Assistant Engineer
- Paul Vigla
- Assistant Engineer
- Bruno Sourice
- Assistant Engineer
- Didier Garnier
- Assistant Engineer
- Johnny Lee
- Art Direction, Design
- Tim Baker
- Assistant Engineer
- André Ceccarelli
- Drums
- Maggie Ryder
- Vocals (Background)
- Ian Thomas
- Drums, Programming, Drum Programming
- Eivind Aarset
- Guitar
- Frode Alnaes
- Guitar
- Kjetil Bjerkestrand
- Organ, Woodwind, Drum Programming, Programming, Clarinet, Drums, Guitar (Bass), Keyboards, Arranger
- John Bradbury
- Violin
- Tim Cansfield
- Guitar
- Emilio Castillo
- Sax (Tenor)
- Marc Chantereau
- Percussion
- Caroline Dale
- Cello
- Thierry Eliez
- Organ, Piano
- Steve Forward
- Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Roger Garland
- Violin
- Sid Gauld
- Trumpet
- Wilfred Gibson
- Violin
- Nigel Hitchcock
- Trumpet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
- Garfield Jackson
- Viola
- Sylvia Mason James
- Vocals (Background)
- Luis Jardim
- Percussion
- Paul Kegg
- Cello
- Per Kolstad
- Keyboards
- Stephen "Doc" Kupka
- Sax (Baritone)
- Brad Lang
- Bass, Guitar (Bass)
- Stevie Lange
- Vocals (Background)
- Ray Charles
- Piano, Programming, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Main Performer, Mixing
- David Mann
- Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
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