ARTIST: Robert Cray
TITLE: Twenty
LABEL: Sanctuary Records
GENRE: Blues
TIME: 47:03 min
SIZE: 70,4 MB
RIP DATE: May-22-2005
RELEASE DATE: May-24-2005
WEBSITE: www.robertcray.com
Track List:
01. Poor Johnny 05:01
02. That Ain't Love 04:44
03. Does It Really Matter 03:54
04. Fadin' Away 03:56
05. My Last Regret 03:51
06. It Doesn't Show 03:55
07. I'm Walkin' 03:54
08. Twenty 06:47
09. I Know You Will 04:14
10. I Forgot To Be Your Lover 02:18
11. Two Steps From The End 04:29
Release Notes:
Almost twenty years ago, Cray made his good name
with Strong Persuader, an excellent album that
demonstrated his prowess as a serious blues-guitar
slinger and a gifted singer-songwriter. He's done
fine work in the years since, but too often Cray
seemed to be searching a tad aimlessly for just the
perfect balance of his blues and more straight-ahead
soul stylings.
Twenty isn't perfect either, but it's Cray's
strongest album since Strong Persuader, and it kicks
right off with one of the reasons why: "Poor
Johnny," a cheating song that doubles your pleasure
with two women exacting a price from the title
character. Ever since "Right Next Door (Because of
Me)," Cray has done well with tales of coital crime
and punishment. The title track of Twenty,
meanwhile, is a mournfully pointed blues against the
Iraq War; "Fadin' Away" is straight blues and just
plain pretty. Cray did more than his fair share to
keep roots music alive in the Eighties, so it's
encouraging to hear him sounding so on his game
twenty years later.