Flashback: See Ray Charles and Ronnie Milsap's Back-to-Back Duet

In 1983, as the Country Music Association celebrated its 25th anniversary, country music was at an interesting crossroads, with bluegrass and traditional honky-tonk material, for instance, finding their way back to mainstream country radio. Still, those roots of the genre had to compete with the polished, pop-leaning “Nashville Sound” that…