Robert Cray - Shoulda Been Home
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Artist: Robert CrayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Baby's Arms
- Already Gone
- Anytime
- Love Sickness
- I'm Afraid
- No One Special
- Out Of Eden
- Cry for Me Baby
- Far Away
- Renew blues
- Help Me Forget
- The 12 Year Old Boy
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Free Music Review: Less blues , more soul, but its still good
Hit: 4 Stars
Blues purists have never been too keen on Robert Cray with his leanings to jazz and soul. Well he has leaned even further towards soul on this recording. If like me, you prefer his love cheat numbers, complete with crisp almost clinical guitar licks, then you may be slightly disappointed with this more soulful offering. I say slightly, because this is still an excellent album.
Shoulda Been Home Poster
Twenty years into his recording career, Robert Cray finds fresh nuances in his personal bent of soul-blues through interpretations of original songs from his keyboard player, Jim Pugh, as well as from the rich history of roots music. His singing throughout the new Steve Jordan-produced album is rich and strong, per usual, and his terse, economical, tremolo guitar now surprises for its similarity to the sound favored by Georgian Robert Ward. All in all, however, the tunes Pugh has given him are unexceptional, and the updates of two Elmore James songs and a Stax item show Cray's deep empathy for tradition without noticeably improving on the original performances. Still, Cray's songwriting about the distressing vagaries of romance has been a strong suit since he gained national fame in the early 1980s--"Already Gone" and "No One Special" are highlights--though the catchy first track, "Baby's Arms," sacrifices tension for sentimentality. --Frank-John HadleyBlues Music CDs
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