Robert Cray
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Renowned for giving the blues a more, soulful, polished sheen, Robert Cray has played with Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker and Bob Dylan and is regarded as one of the most skilful guitarists of his kind. Raised in a military family, he started playing in his teens in Virginia with first band Steakface, before building a growing reputation in his twenties when he teamed up with Curtis Salgado and lit up Oregon's blues-rock scene as the Cray-Hawks. Signed to Mercury in 1982, his fifth album Strong Persuader (1986) proved the big breakthrough, winning his first of three Grammy Awards, reaching Number 13 in the US charts and producing one of his great singles. Smoking Gun. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (1988), Midnight Stroll (1990) and Some Rainy Morning (1995) cemented his reputation as a leading contemporary bluesman and further defined the clean, rich signature sound produced by his Fender Stratocaster guitar. Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011, Cray continues to tour the world and keep the spirit and the traditions of the blues alive.
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- Hold On by Robert Cray
- Your Good Thing Is About To End by Robert Cray
- Back At The Chicken Shack
- Time Makes Two
- Let's Have A Natural Ball
- I Wonder
- That's What Keeps Me Rockin' by Robert Cray
- Nothin' But A Woman
- Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
- Back Door Slam
- Our Last Time by Robert Cray
- Simple Things
- Smoking Gun
- Some Pain, Some Shame by The Robert Cray Band
- Times Makes Two
- Spare Some Love?
- Stay Go by The Robert Cray Band
- Steppin' Out
- Still Around by The Robert Cray Band
- Survivor
- Tell The Landlord
- That Ain't Love
- That Wasn't Me
- Gonna Forget About You
