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	Robert Cray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Cray (born 1 August 1953, in Columbus, Georgia) is a blues musician, guitarist and singer.
		Robert Cray was among artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, who got wider radio airplay and regular MTV video exposure during the late 1980s.
		Cray has generally played Fender guitars (Telecasters and Stratocasters) and his touring band consists of bass, drums, keyboard, saxophone and trumpet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Cray (380 words)

	Ink 19 :: Robert Cray
		Cray still sings bluesy themes and speaks to the broken heart in all humans, yet his new music owes more to the soulful stylings of the Stax era and the Motown soundwhich were pioneered in the '60s and '70s by Ann Peebles and Al Green.
		Cray's performance, accompanied by his own band and the flawless Memphis Horns, was impeccable.
		Cray plays the only guitar in his band, which means that the sheer range and variety, and constant fascination, in his guitar treatments of his tunes proves a true wonder.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_08/live/029_robert_cray.shtml (670 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Robert Cray
		ROBERT CRAY being an artist who has recorded a dozen studio albums and has established a readily identifiable sound that draws liberally from classic Memphis soul and smooth yet punchy blues, it can be tempting to think that one Cray CD sounds pretty much like the rest.
		Cray says he hasn't minded giving up some of the control over his albums, even though Jordan is a highly proactive producer who takes a major role in everything from song arrangements to getting precise instrumental sounds for each song.
		The Robert Cray Band performs Friday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m., at the Luther Burbank Center for Performing Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.20.01/cray-0138.html (593 words)

	Robert Cray: Twenty - UMC.org
		All the same, Cray cannot be easily dismissed: He’s considered a peer by such pedigreed pickers as Eric Clapton, viewed as a legacy by the veteran bluesmen who influenced him, and—most significantly—he carried the blues idiom into massive mainstream acceptance with his breakthrough 1986 album, Strong Persuader.
		Cray’s most singular characteristic is probably his knack for musical alchemy, which he uses to combine the bite (albeit half-fanged) of the Mississippi delta with sleek Memphis soul, Motown-tinged RandB and white pop sensibilities.
		Cray, the son of an Army career man and Vietnam War veteran, likely has strong feelings on the topic; yet he hands off his one-sided verbal bayonet to a fictional character apparently intended to fight the musician’s position for him.
	www.umc.org /site/c.gjJTJbMUIuE/b.1202869/k.DC34/Robert_Cray_Twenty.htm (611 words)

	Fender Players Club - Robert Cray
		Robert Cray occupies a unique place in the blues guitar world - a new school (that is to say, a younger) bluesman who came to prominence in the 1980s and was able to achieve popularity far outside the blues world.
		Cray got his first break joining Albert Collins’; band in 1973, but he left two years later to form the Robert Cray Band.
		It was in 1986 that Cray released his breakthrough crossover hit album Strong Persuader with its songs "Right Next Door," "Smoking Gun," "I Guess I Showed Her," and "Nothing Like a Woman" that made him a favorite on the concert scene and won a Grammy.
	www.fenderplayersclub.com /artists_lounge/hall_of_legends/cray.htm (381 words)

	Cray, Robert
		Robert Cray was born in Columbus, Georgia on 1 August 1953.
		Robert has jammed with Eric Clapton on many occasions, most notable being the blues nights at the Albert Hall in 1990 and 1991.
		Robert Cray and his band will open for Eric for the Spring / Summer 2006 European Leg of Eric’s 2006 / 2007 World Tour.
	www.ericclaptonfaq.com /biographies-other-musicians/robert-cray.html (205 words)

	Robert Cray - Arts and Entertainment
		If Robert Cray and his band were worried about having to follow an act that had so thoroughly arrested the audience, he didn't show it.
		Cray sauntered out onto stage with his guitar slung over his shoulder, and did as he has done for more than 20 years: hypnotizing the audience with his blend of R&B vocals, clean guitar playing and most of all, experience.
		Cray's voice is as much as an instrument as a means of telling the stories of his songs.
	www.usmfreepress.org /news/2005/11/14/ArtsAndEntertainment/Robert.Cray-1056671.shtml (373 words)

	:: Altsounds.com :: - Robert Cray, Sanctuary Records Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert Cray (born August 9, 1953 in Columbus, Georgia) is a blues musician, guitarist and singer.
		Robert Cray was among artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, who got wider radio play while being innovative blues oriented guitarists and songwriters in 1980's.
		Cray was an opening act for major stars and sold out larger venues as a solo artists.
	www.altsounds.com /altsounds/bands/2621 (243 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shame And A Sin: Music: Robert Cray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert Cray heralded Shame & a Sin as a return to his blues roots following the forays into Stax-inspired soul with 1990's Midnight Stroll and 1993's I Was Warned.
		Cray resembles one of those athletes who is blessed with such a perfect stride that nobody believes he's running hard.
		Cray plays some of his most memorable and distinctive songs and shows that as he has refined and matured he has only gained in power and excitement.
	www.amazon.ca /Shame-A-Sin-Robert-Cray/dp/B000001E1T (907 words)

	DIG Internet Radio - Interview: Robert Cray
		Bluesman Robert Cray has been performing for over 25 years, and recently he spoke to Brian Wise about his latest CD Time Will Tell, the frustration of US Radio and how he's enjoying being back on the road again.
		Cray won five Grammy awards (most notably for his collaboration with Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland) and he has recorded with the likes of John Lee Hooker (his friend and idol), Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry and BB King.
		Cray says that he is enjoying the current tour with John Hiatt immensely and that he will be bringing his band to Australia early next year.
	www.abc.net.au /dig/stories/s899126.htm (925 words)

	Robert Cray
		The Robert Cray Band was born in the misty Northwest in 1974, a group of young men so dedicated to playing that they would hitchhike from Eugene to Portland in the pouring rain just to rehearse.
		Together Cray and Clapton co-wrote "Old Love," which was one of the high points of the British blues rocker's Grammy-winning 1992 Unplugged disc.
		It was during the explosive period of the late '80s that Robert also appeared in Tina Turner's "Break Every Rule" international television special and home video which yielded two duet tracks on her Grammy-winning 1988 Live in Europe.
	www.catalystclub.com /bios/rcray_bio.html (1261 words)

	Robert Cray Band Tickets - Robert Cray Band Concert Tour Schedule - Robert Cray Band Ticket Broker
		Cray is considered an inventive, impressively reachable guitarist and a multi-talented singer/songwriter/producer.
		Robert Clay was featured in the August 2003 issue of Vanity Fair among other artists who performed in the Salute to The Blues concert at the Radio City Music Hall in February of 2003.
		The Robert Cray Band repeatedly tours all over the North America and is known to co-headline with John Hiatt and The Goners.
	www.coasttocoasttickets.com /concerts/robertcrayband_article.shtml (754 words)

	MSJ - Robert Cray - Twenty
		Robert Cray has always been lumped into the blues category, but this disc (along with the rest of his catalog) really shows that while his music at times fits well within that genre, more often than not it is far more wide reaching than the compartmentalized pigeon hole that the moniker creates.
		Cray is not content to sit within any one style, instead creating a heartfelt and soulful mix of sounds that incorporates blues, soul, R and B and rock.
		Every song showcases Cray's passionate and soulful vocal delivery and the entire disc is a work of class.
	www.musicstreetjournal.com /robertcraycd.htm (546 words)

	Robert Cray
		Ever since his 1980 debut breakthrough, Who's Been Talkin', Robert Cray has been the leading light in the next generation of blues artists, forging a contemporary sound that wanders between the full-bodied electric blues of B.B. King, the cool, languid soul of Al Green, and the hard-hitting street smart rock-influenced soul of Wilson Pickett.
		During his quarter-century career, Cray had been one of the best-selling blues artists of all time, recording more than a dozen studio records and taking home a handful of Grammys.
		Cray's 2001 Ryko album (his second for the label), Shoulda Been Home, recalls the classic Memphis Soul of the Reverend Al, particularly in Cray's dusty croon and the burbling organs running throughout.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/robertcray.html (202 words)

	Tour Profile: On the road with blues master Robert Cray.
		It's not that Cray's music is a mixing challenge for Newell — he's been with Cray for 25 years now — or that the tour is taking them into dicey territories.
		“Robert is old school and he likes to hear his vocal hitting him in the face and his guitar amps hitting him from behind,” he says.
		He switches between Robert Cray model Stratocasters, a custom-made James Trussart steel Deville guitar and another custom guitar with a Telecaster body and neck and a block under the strings between the back pickup and the bridge so it sounds like a sitar.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_robert_cray/index.html (1096 words)

	Twenty by Robert Cray CD
		A new album from Robert Cray is unlikely to contain any radical departures from his laid-back, blues-influenced R&B, sweetly stinging leads, and mellow, soulful singing.
		Robert Cray has certainly matured as a vocalist and displays some serious talent in that arena.
		Each new release from Robert Cray seems to be subject to the same criticism: namely, that his blues-inflected R&B doesn't live up to the promise of his roots.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6846180/a/Twenty.htm (815 words)

	Robert Cray
		When Robert Cray showed up at the Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den lounge for a free show back on November 2nd it was as if the entire blues community turned out.
		Robert Cray was once again touring to promote another successful record, the soon to be Grammy nominated "Sweet Potato Pie." I only make this prediction because every one of Cray’s records in the last eleven years has been nominated.
		Robert Cray was born on August 1st 1953 in Columbus, Georgia.
	www.swaves.com /Back_Issues/Jan98/Cray.html (1084 words)

	Robert Cray - Artist of the Blues - blues-radio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		♠ Robert Cray was a college student playing guitar in a psychedelic cover band when Albert Collins gave a concert at the University of Tacoma in 1969.
		The son of a serviceman, Robert was born in Columbus, Georgia, but grew up in Virginia, Germany and on the West Coast.
		Influenced early by the soul explosion, by the late 60’s Cray was a teenage rocker.
	www.bluessociety.net /robertcray.html (285 words)

	Robert Cray - Twenty : album review
		Cray's critics have often complained that he serves a watered-down version of the blues, but that's surely missing the point.
		It's true that nobody will tell urban legends about Cray selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads, but Twenty is full of songs about pain, heartbreak and infidelity, which is after all the lifeblood of the blues.
		Cray's voice throughout is truly soulful - he has the sort of vocal that can raise the more mediocre numbers into something special, and tracks such as Does It Really Matter or I Know You Will, which could sound formulaic in other hands, sound great here.
	www.musicomh.com /albums4/robert-cray.htm (521 words)

	Where We Live: Robert Cray
		Motivated by recent events and inspired by the currents of change, The Robert Cray Band has seized the creative reins to deliver the most ambitious recording of its illustrious career.
		Robert's intuitive take on roots music certainly hasn't cost him his credibility.
		With a recording career spanning almost 25 years, conventional wisdom states that The Robert Cray Band should be fading quietly into the musical sunset.
	www.wherewelive.org /cd/bio_robert_cray.htm (1064 words)

	pf - Robert Cray - Blues Artists - Corporate Entertainment Booking
		Robert Cray was a driving force in the tremendous revitalization and renewed popularity of the blues in the '80s and, powered with Cray's equal love of soulful RandB, he and his band continue to refashion and fuel the boom that rolls on into the millennium and beyond.
		The millennium continues a watershed period for Robert Cray, who in '99 celebrated 25 years as a band leader with more than 90 concerts and two CD releases.
		Robert Cray has 11 Grammy nominations and 5 wins to his credit.
	www.delafont.com /music_acts/E/robert-cray.htm (254 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Buddy Guy & Robert Cray Show
		While Robert Cray was certainly spectacular with some of the more imaginative contemporary blues originals I've heard, Buddy's opening two acoustic numbers were energizing, to say the least.
		I don't know much of Robert Cray's stuff, but of course he certainly is held in high regard in Blues circles.
		Robert Cray is great, and Eric Clapton is a huge fan of Robert...
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=5747&goto=newpost (438 words)

	ROBERT CRAY
		The musicians Cray had grown up admiring and in whose footsteps he thought he was walking -- blues guitar road warriors like Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland -- had rarely gotten a whiff of large-scale popular success.
		Cray will perform Thursday at Herbst Theatre in a benefit for Music in Schools Today (see accompanying story on Page 46), which promotes the preservation of music education in San Francisco schools.
		Cray's previous CD, "Time Will Tell," also dealt with Iraq in the song "Distant Shore," but "Twenty" carries a more pointed and personal set of lyrics, and Cray has upped the ante by making "Twenty" the title song and by featuring cover art depicting an anguished soldier alone in the desert.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/22/PKGEECQ30H1.DTL (951 words)

	Robert Cray - Biography - AOL Music
		In reality, Robert Cray is one of a precious few active blues artists with the talent and vision to successfully usher the idiom into the future without resorting either to slavish imitation or simply playing rock while passing it off as blues.
		Sets such as Midnight Stroll, I Was Warned and Shame + a Sin for Mercury show that the "bluenatics" (as he amusedly labels his purist detractors) have nothing to fear and plenty to anticipate from this innovative, laudably accessible guitarist.
		Get Robert Cray biography information, download, listen and watch Robert Cray music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
	music.aol.com /artist/robert-cray/320/biography (359 words)

	Robert Cray
		Turning fifty this year, Robert has had time to look a life and delivers a masterpiece defining where he is today.
		Once again Robert Cray proves that the blues and strings can be a combined to produce a beautiful thing.
		Throughout this disc, Robert vocals are strong and silky smooth.
	www.crossroadsbluessociety.com /robert_cray.htm (360 words)

	Review: Robert Cray's 'Take Your Shoes Off'
		But Robert Cray's been doing something even more original: his blues is given a touch of, dig this, creative and tuneful songwriting.
		Cray has always had a knack for the Golden Chord Progression, dating back to his 1988 hit "Don't Be Afraid of The Dark" (which he did not write.) Cray has shown, at times, a greater fealty to Walter Becker and Donald Fagen than to Willie Dixon.
		Given Robert Cray's heartbreaking vocal ability and guitar proficiency, I liken his reproduction of yet another straight-up blues number to a brilliant painter sitting down to recreate, line for line, a Mondrian.
	leisuresuit.net /Webzine/articles/robert_cray.shtml (768 words)

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