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                 Robert Cray - The Definitive Collection
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   Artist  : Robert Cray
   Album   : The Definitive Collection

   Genre   : Blues
   Label   : Hip-O Records

   Source  : CDDA
   Size    : 102,1 MB

   Quality : VBRkbps
   : 44.1kHz
           : Joint
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   Tracklist:
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   01    phone booth                                              03:31
   02    bad influence                                            02:54
   03    playin' in the dirt                                      03:47
   04    smoking gun                                              04:08
   05    i guess i showed her                                     03:39
   06    right next door (because of me)                          04:20
   07    don't be afraid of the dark                              03:47
   08    forecast (calls for pain)                                03:59
   09    consequences                                             04:26
   10    i was warned                                             07:15
   11    i shiver                                                 05:07
   12    moan                                                     06:00
   13    trick or treat                                           03:12
   14    love gone to waste                                       04:14
   15    survivor                                                 05:15
   16    poor johnny                                              05:00

                                                   Total Runtime: 70:34 min 
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   Release Notes:  Robert Cray's musical strengths, which include an 
   economic, elegant and melodic guitar approach and a soulful and 
   unthreatening vocal style, have led many blues purists to question his 
   authenticity in the genre, but to his credit, Cray has ignored all that 
   and fashioned an approachable legacy that treats the blues as a vital 
   ingredient in a kind of soul/blues mix that looks forward as much as it 
   enfolds the past. This is an artist, remember, who managed to get the 
   blues, even if it was somewhat sanitized, into regular rotation on MTV 
   in the 1980s, and if he seems more jazz than Delta in his guitar playing, 
   well, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Cray's main talent may 
   be in synthesis, but he can still get you good in a cutting contest. 
   This 16-track compilation spans Cray's recording career beginning with 
   his Hightone Records debut, Bad Influence from 1983 (nothing from 
   Cray's first LP, 1980s Who's Been Talkin' on Tomato Records, is 
   included here) and runs through his lengthy stint with Mercury Records 
   to his more recent turns with Rykodisc and Sanctuary Records. What 
   becomes obvious in listening to this sequence is how remarkably 
   consistent Cray has been in his sound, even as he has grown more to 
   the soul side of things. The blues is always there, just beneath the 
   surface, and his broad accessibility is impressive. What's perhaps 
   even more impressive is Cray's songwriting, which has opened up to 
   include several political songs of late, and he is doing what many 
   more acclaimed contemporary blues players have shied away from. He 
   is addressing his times, all within the context of his style. This 
   collection makes an adequate introduction to Cray's work, and it 
   features key tracks like "Phone Booth," "Smoking Gun" and "I Was 
   Warned," but one gets the feeling that it might be a bit premature, 
   that Cray's best and most innovative work might still be up and around 
   the bend.



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