LoginBad Influence
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When the Washington-state-based bluesman cut this album, his second, in 1983, Robert Cray was still four years away from his major-label, US Top 40 hit "Smoking Gun". Nonetheless, his signature sound is intact: horn-coloured Stax-style arrangements, a backbeat laced with funk, Cray's own gospelised vocals, and the stiletto-tipped notes that he rips from his Stratocaster. A few years later Eric Clapton covered the title song; but what's most fun here is listening to Cray pay homage to his good influences. He covers numbers by Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Eddie Floyd, and charges into his guitar solos with
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Manufacturer: Mercury
Release date: 9 April 1991
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0042283024526 UPC: 042283024526
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Release date: 9 April 1991
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0042283024526 UPC: 042283024526
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