Singers: That's All Right

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Charles lives in a world of sounds alone, and even his best songs do not completely tell what goes on there. Southern spiritualists have claimed to hear him speaking the "unknown tongue," and serious jazz critics go along with calling him "The Genius." But something else remains—the catch in the way he sings "That's all right"—and it suggests that something is wrong. How can it be all right, when it stirs the listener so sadly?

*Usually plaintive ballads, sung with hillbilly or cowboy guitar accompaniment.

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