Robert Cray
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Robert Cray Band: Bad Influence (Demon)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 15 September 1984
LOOKS LIKE a blues album, but this is some of the tightest, earthiest soul music of the '80s. A beautiful record, originally out on the ...
The Robert Cray Band: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Bill Black, Sounds, 20 April 1985
ROBERT CRAY is to blues what Wynton Marsalis is to jazz. That is, a young, mercurial talent who's arrived on the scene with a fresh, ...
B.B. King and Robert Cray: "Being a Blues Singer is Like Being Black Two Times"
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1986
Ask the besuited patriarch or the bedenimed young turk. Charles Shaar Murray talks to B.B. King and Robert Cray. ...
The Robert Cray Band: Midnight Stroll
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1990
ANOTHER ROBERT CRAY album: we all know what to expect by now, right? ...
The Robert Cray Band: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 3 August 1985
Cray of Sunshine ...
Robert Cray Bringing The Blues Up To Date
Interview by 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 ...
Robert Cray: New Twist On The Blues
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 1987
"IT'S REALLY FUNNY now, because when you're really down and out, nothing comes to you," reflected Robert Cray. "But when things start going for you, ...
Robert Cray: Blues Pour L'Homme
Interview by Don Waller, MOJO, July 1995
MOJO catches up with handsome devil Robert Cray in that traditional milieu of the blues hero: on the road in Anchorage, Alaska… ...
Robert Cray: Wedded Bliss Blues
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Daily Telegraph, 15 September 1990
Mark Cooper asks, can contented men sing the blues? I do, says Robert Cray ...
Review by Max Bell, The Times, 1 February 1986
Irish quirkiness and venom ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 1 September 1990
Robert Cray has gotten himself hitched to a girl from Leicester and gone back to the Stax and Volt labels for inspiration on his new ...
The Robert Cray Band: Midnight Stroll
Review by Paul Sexton, Select, October 1990
THE CHIPS were well and truly down for Robert Cray this time. It was felt that 1988's Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark had him ...
Interview by Pippa Lang, What Hi-Fi?, September 1989
Don't go to record company parties or mix with producers to catch a glimpse of Robert Cray. As he tells Pippa Lang, making music is ...
B.B. King, Robert Cray: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Roger St. Pierre, Blues & Soul, 15 December 1992
KING BY name, King by nature — B.B. of that ilk was certainly well named. ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, i-D, December 1987
With the highest charting blues album ever under his belt, soulful Robert Cray is laughing as he brings "my parents' music" into the '80s, and ...
The Dirty Dozen: Twelve gritty new blues CDs
Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 7 June 1999
HERE'S MUD IN your ear: a dozen new or reissued blues albums that capture the gritty spirit of the music in a passel of different ...
Robert Cray: Young Bob's Blues
Interview by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, February 1989
ON OCTOBER 24th, 1988, Robert Cray played a sell out gig at the Manchester Apollo. He was riding high and on this extensive UK tour ...
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