Robert Cray - Take Your Shoes Off
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Artist: Robert CrayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Love Gone To Waste
- That Wasn't Me
- All The Way
- There's Nothing Wrong
- 24-7 Man
- Pardon
- Let Me Know
- It's All Gone
- Won't You Give Him (One More Chance)
- Living Proof
- What About Me
- Tollin' Bells
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Free Music Review: ...Cray's best...
Hit: 4 Stars
This is the first Cray recording that I put on my 'top-shelf' of frequentlyt listened to cds. I had always liked the man, but his laid back vibe combined with the glossy prduction of his records, had often left me feeling cold. BUT NOT HERE. The writing is sharp. The playing is both gritty and tastefull. And,the band works in a deep yet tight groove throughout the set that gives more breathing room to Robert's playing and creates a warmer feel for the material. Much thanks has to go to producer Steve Jordan. He encouraged a style out of the band reminicent of the MGs and the Bar-Kays, nice Hammond sound, funky horn kicks....love the disc!! Buy Buy Buy
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Robert Cray's spent the '90s evolving from West Coast bluesman to Memphis soul belter. So Cray's restrained guitar playing on his first CD for Rykodisc--after his unhappy departure from his longtime label Mercury--comes as no surprise. What's shocking is the utter perfection of his emulation of the signature sounds of the classic Stax and Hi Records singles of the '60s and early '70s. Cray's voice exhibits the delirious growl-to-falsetto flights of a young Al Green on numbers like "What About Me," "Love Gone to Waste," and the prisoner-of-love weeper "Pardon." But his arrangements--heavy on kick drum, fatback horn grooves, and organ flourishes--retain a grit that Hi in particular lost over time. And when he launches into a guitar solo like the probing corker that climaxes his take on Willie Dixon's "Toll the Bells," Cray rekindles the influence of his late mentor Albert Collins and reasserts himself as a torchbearer of stinging blues. --Ted DrozdowskiBlues Music CDs
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