Robert Cray - Live From Across the Pond
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Artist: Robert CrayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Phone Booth
- Poor Johnny
- Our Last Time
- Right Next Door (Because of Me)
- 12 Year Old Boy
- I Guess I Showed Her
- The Things You Do to Me
- I Was Warned
- Twenty
- Bad Influence
- The One in the Middle
- Back Door Slam
- Time Makes Two
- I'm Walkin'
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Free Music Review: You have to see this band live!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of Robert Cray ever since he brought together the backup band of Kevin Hayes, Jim Pugh, and Karl Sevareid. Bottom line....this is one of the most solid rythym sections in ANY electrified format. Their groove does not move!!!! None of the three are considered jaw dropping chopsmeisters but these three infallably solid guys together with the incomperable Robert Cray make for a magical display of taste beyond taste. Cray's guitar work on this set is stellar. This is one of only a small handful of touring soul/blues bands I keep track of because they are that good. Do yourself a favor and see them live. If you can't, get this disc to catch a glimpse of what you are missing.
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Subtlety is both a blessing and curse for Robert Cray. In the studio, his increasingly restrained arrangements have served to frame his growing mastery of classic Memphis soul, allowing his soaring, vibrato-rich voice to carry tunes that directly echo the Stax years. That can work well live, too, and does so here in "Phone Booth" and the funky distillation "Back Door Slam," an ode to sexy down-home belters like Little Johnnie Taylor. But too often Cray downplays his incendiary guitar abilities on stage, which makes long numbers like "The One in the Middle" interminable, and leaves this two-disc live set--recorded during a week of shows opening for Eric Clapton at London's Royal Albert Hall in May 2006--full of cold spots. Things heat up whenever Cray picks up his Stratocaster in earnest, whether he's plucking out fat, singing notes à la Albert Collins in his radio hit "I Guess I Showed Her" or weaving a slow, soulful path through the bridge of the ballad "The Things You Do to Me," using his whammy bar and unpredictable variations on the melody to conjure shades of introspection. Overall, this set will please Cray's die-hard fans, but is unlikely to lure new listeners. --Ted DrozdowskiBlues Music CDs
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