“Now That We’ve Found Each Other”
Song by Ray Charles
Ray Charles’s life-long friend Mabel John co-wrote the song “Now That We’ve Found Each Other”, which he recorded for his 1980 album Brother Ray Is At It Again. It’s a comfortable, mid-tempo song, sounding like a Ray version of soft rock. Which is to say the music might melt away and drip down into the gutter undigested in the hands of anyone else, but with Mr. Charles’s deft touch with arrangements and mixing and his winning vocals it leaps from the speakers.
Well, maybe it doesn’t leap but it does offer a chance to hear Ray and his studio band lending their expert hands to a song that doesn’t require flash or virtuosity. It’s content to just be what it is: a lovely and unassuming peek into this side of Ray’s musical personality, necessary on an album that goes out of its way to show different aspects of the artist’s multiple muses.
“Now That We’ve Found Each Other”, which unlike many of Ray’s songs is about happiness and contentment, was chosen as the B-side to the only single released from Brother Ray Is At It Again, the tough ‘n funky “Compared To What”. An odd but satisfying pairing.
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Songs on Brother Ray Is At It Again