ARTiST: Robert Cray
TiTLE: Live From Across The Pond
LABEL: New West Records
GENRE: Blues
TiME: 100:38 min
SiZE: 156,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Nov-26-2006
RELEASE DATE: Nov-27-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
CD1
01. Phone Booth 04:39
02. Poor Johnny 06:22
03. Our Last Time 08:23
04. Right Next Door (Because Of Me) 06:02
05. 12 Year Old Boy 06:28
06. I Guess I Showed Her 04:41
07. The Things You Do To Me 07:07
08. I Shiver 05:48
09. Smoking Gun 05:31
CD2
01. I Was Warned 08:36
02. Twenty 07:34
03. Bad Influence 03:59
04. The One In The Middle 08:20
05. Back Door Slam 05:27
06. Time Makes Two 06:18
07. I'm Walkin' 05:23
Release Notes:
For over 30 years, Georgia bluesman Robert Cray has
championed the mainstream American blues cause
through his silky Memphis soul-like vocals and
precision-cut Fender guitar licks. With the likes of
Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, he helped
convert the eighties MTV video generation to
American roots music, grabbing back the blues crown
from the sixties British blues revivalists who had
single-handedly re-popularised the music of Muddy
Watters, BB King, and John Lee Hooker. But amazingly
enough he's never recorded a live album, despite his
formidable live reputation. Until now, that is.
This two-CD set selects the best moments from seven
Royal Albert Hall shows recorded during a week long
run in May 2006. Recording live was something that
Cray had always been dubious of due to a fear of
losing any live spontaneity once the record button
was pressed. He even admitted to losing his voice
just at the thought of it. The way he got around
this was to record over seven consecutive nights so
that eventually he and his keyboardist Jim Pugh,
bassist Karl Sevareid, and drummer Kevin Hayes, were
concentrating purely on playing the music and
entertaining the crowd.
The result is remarkable considering that there are
no edits or 'punch-ins' added later. Clearly Cray
and Pugh enjoy trading licks, with some of the best
moments appearing on 'I'm Walking' and the imploring
Hammond B3 soul licks of 'The Thing You Do To Me'.
Other highlights Include Cray's poignant anti-war
(post 9/11) song 'Twenty', 'Phone Booth', and blues
stomper 'Back Door Slam'.