Larry Goldings, Dean Parks, David Piltch and Jay Bellerose form the group that provides the spare, tasteful backing arranged by Larry Klein for each song. Vince Mendozas string arrangements on six tracks are beautiful, unpredictable and perfectly appropriate to the tone and mood of each song. If there is a direct musical link to Ray Charles, its Goldingss soulful, in-the-pocket keyboard work with the same kind of perfectly placed notes and use of space that were part of Charless signature.