Watch Robert Cray on Jay Leno…AGAIN!

08-17-2010

Didn’t catch the Robert Cray Band on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show last month? Cray’s July 28th live performance is going to be re-broadcasted on NBC on August 26th! Be sure to tune in and hear “Chicken in the Kitchen” off the newly released album, Cookin’ in Mobile!

In Truro, Cray will be cookin’

08-12-2010 - The Chronicle Herald

Blues guitarist Robert Cray is fond of telling his audiences that “Everything we do is gonna be funky!" Perhaps not funky in the sense of a hard James Brown jam or the rubbery outer space vibe of Parliament’s mother ship, but the Robert Cray Band has a way of digging in its heels and getting listeners into the groove.

The Hartford Courant - Concert Review

08-12-2010 - The Hartford Courant

WINDSOR -- Six summers removed from its last show, the SS&C SummerWind Performing Arts Center in Windsor reopened at last Saturday night. Blues mainstay Robert Cray christened its new tent on a pleasantly cool evening, filling his polished performance with a strong helping of electric guitar flourishes...

CD Review: “Cookin’ In Mobile” - The Robert Cray Band

08-04-2010 - Living Blues

Thirty-six years on the road, with only occasional changes in personnel, have helped make the Robert Cray Band the tightest blues-based unit on the planet.  The quartet’s ability to instantly switch its dynamics from a scream to a whisper is unparalleled, and its arrangements, particularly the song endings, are marked by frequent surprise.

‘Cookin’ in Mobile’ sizzles!

08-04-2010

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Scott Malchus of Eat Sleep Drink Music recently reviewed The Robert Cray Band’s newly released Cookin’ in Mobile, praising the record for serving as a “real concert experience, with the band giving the songs new life from their studio counterparts,” and discussing Robert Cray’s place in modern blues history:

“In the 1980s, when rock music took a slick turn and anyone playing the blues was kind of poo pooed, several artists carried the torch until the rest of the music world woke up from their hairspray-induced coma and rediscovered the blues. The two most prominent were Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray. Cray’s status is often overshadowed by the flashier Vaughan, but his place in the annals of blues rock is just as important as the deceased guitar god from Texas. The Robert Cray Band has continued to put out solid, plucky albums (18 so far) since their debut in 1980, while still dazzling audiences with their phenomenal live concerts. That expertise of the Robert Cray Band is on full display throughout Cookin’ in Mobile….”

(Read the rest of the review here.)

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