The great Charlie Rich doing what he wants

No matter what Charlie Rich recorded in his roller coaster career, you could hear in his smoky Arkansas drawl that something deeper was going on.

By Peter Stone Brown (1992)

After more than 30 years of making records, they've finally let Charlie Rich do what he wants. On ‘Pictures and Paintings’ (Sire), for the first time he's allowed to express his first love, jazz, and combine it with the blues, R and B, Gospel and country scattered across his other recordings.