Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
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Artist: Robert CrayEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Published: 1990
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Smoking Gun
- I Guess I Showed Her
- Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
- Nothin' But A Woman
- Still Around
- More Than I Can Stand
- Foul Play
- I Wonder
- Fantasized
- New Blood
Free Music Notes for Strong Persuader
Free Music Review: The guitar players' guitar player... shines!
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the cool features of the Blues is how many types and styles there are. Unfortunately for my wallet, I enjoy just about every form out there. Way back when Strong Persuader came out, it just knocked my socks off. It was quite different from anything I'd ever heard. The more I listened into it, the more I heard. I was rewarded with every repeated playing. This album isn't like Stevie Ray Vaughn, isn't like Clapton when he plays the Blues, isn't' like Muddy Waters, isn't like Hubert Sumlin, Son House, Lonnie Johnson.... it isn't like anything but Robert Cray... and that's a good thing, as Martha would say.
Guitar players worldwide admire the tight, efficient, textured, smooth style of Mr. Cray. Clapton, Mark Knopfler, B.B. King, and even Chuck Berry have all sung the praises of Mr. Robert Cray on electric guitar. THAT should tell you something.
I have much of his catalog in my collection and some of it is uneven. Not this baby! There are no bad songs here... period. Cut after cut, the playing is energetic and the singing is spot on. There's only as much there as there needs to be and no more than that. Because of that, the music and the lead licks get a chance to breathe a little. They're not covered up by the other instruments in the mix.
I've been lucky enough to see the Robert Cray Band twice in fairly small venues, both in Spokane, WA, and he simply tore the joint up both times without looking like he was doing it. When you listen to this disc, you definitely get a strong taste of what those two concerts were like.
From my perspective he is the consumate professional and a most courteous musician who has no problem with the spotlight being on someone else. On my 2-disc version of CHUCK BERRY: Hail! Hail! Rock n' Roll, there's Robert playing RHYTHM guitar in the background, laying down in the weeds and putting out that trademark sound which allows the pyrotechnics of Mr. Berry to be luminescent due to the contrast. Make no mistake; Robert Cray is a Big Dog in the world of Blues. It tells you all you need to know about the guy when you see and hear him do something like this.
If you get this one, try playing it on a "big" system sometime - one with strong, tight bass and crisp sparkle in the treble area. When you close your eyes, you can almost hear the angels... and the devils gettin' down...
In going back to his roots as far as his catalog is concerned, you can't go wrong here. I'd give this one 6-stars if I could.
Strong Persuader Poster
Stinging urban blues by way of Texas and Memphis distinguish Robert Cray's major-label debut, which followed three strong independent releases. Here he fleshes out his sound with bursts of brassy Southern soul courtesy of the Memphis Horns, but keeps his pungent, steely guitar solos out front in an engaging dialogue with his plaintive vocals. Released in 1986, Strong Persuader signaled that Cray, as a writer--like his contemporary Stevie Ray Vaughan--had something to say about his interior life beyond the usual bluesman's laments, an approach that pays homage to the music's rich traditions while suggesting new areas of inquiry. --David McGeeBlues Music CDs
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