Robert Cray Bringing The Blues Up To Date
Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1985
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND why Robert Cray felt uncomfortable about the stir he created among blues fans two years ago. The arrival of an accomplished young black singer/guitarist like Cray (who performs at the Lingerie on Saturday and the Belly Up in Solano Beach on Sunday) was a godsend for blues lovers accustomed to older black veterans or earnest white revivalists.
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