My sister saw the movie “Ray” and brought the soundtrack to the store for me to check out (great music!)
As I was asking her about it, I wondered out loud if he beat up on his womens a lot. You know – the token legendary performer behind the scenes drugs, alcohol, abusive realtionship thing that makes those movies and stories so entertaining (see: Ike Turner)?
It then quickly dawned on me that Ray Charles was probably a pretty nice dude, or so he seemed to be, and more importantly, he’s blind. Chances are he didn’t do much punch swinging – I had a picture in my head of him swinging his arm through the air to hit his ladyfriend and her dodging him with ease. All you’d hear is swoop…. swoop….