Heavy Picks - The Collection
by Robert Cray$11.95 Free Shipping
- Released
- 17/01/00
- Music Genre
- Blues
Description
Throughout the '80s, Robert Cray and Stevie Ray Vaughan were heralded as the "new hopes" for the blues. Although Vaughan's fiery blues-based playing made this sobriquet more appropriate, Cray's style took as much from Memphis soul as it did Chicago blues. HEAVY PICKS compiles the cream of Cray's material released between 1980 and 1997. Combining a fluid guitar sound and a creamy vocal style, Robert Cray wrote music often based on the fragility of relationships between men and women. His high-caliber songwriting not only found Cray being covered by the likes of Albert King ("Phone Booth") and Eric Clapton ("Bad Influence"), but also landed him in the Top 40 ("Smoking Gun"). Although covers of Willie Dixon ("Too Many Cooks") and Otis Redding ("Trick or Treat") bridged the blues and soul divide, Cray's R&B strengths leapt out more in his collaborations with the Memphis Horns. On songs such as "Consequences," "Forecast (Calls for Pain)," and "I Guess I Showed Her," Cray's singing not only channels the influence of soul legend O.V. Wright, but his crisp guitar playing also points to Steve Cropper's Stax/Volt legacy.
Product Details
- Artist
- Robert Cray
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- MERCURY USA
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #21247
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 1999
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 1999
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #15053
- Cast & Crew
- Robert Cray (Music Performer)
Press Reviews
...a solid survey of Cray's 1980-'97 breakthrough years." - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (12/17/99, p.87)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Phone Booth
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Forecast (Calls for Pain)
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Smoking Gun
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Playin' in the Dirt
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
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Too Many Cooks
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Dream
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All Tied Up in You
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Consequences
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Bad Influence
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I Guess I Showed Her
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I Shiver
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Trick or Treat
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I Was Warned
