The Robert Cray Band

According to the Guinness book of Rockopedia, “the 1980s ‘blues revival’ revolved around Cray. His blend of soul vocals and blues guitar won approval from the “old guard” – Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Diana Ross – and a younger audience, who pushed him into the platinum bracket.” Cray’s band rocks and wails and plunges way down to the bottom of the blues well. Aside from their musicianship, the key to Cray and his band is the more than one thousand gigs they’ve played together locking in a sound that’s elegant and direct, searing and smooth.