Artist
Robert Cray
Robert Cray is a blues artist from Columbus, USA formed in 1953. 35 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Blues · Columbus, USA · Best blues albums
- 35
- Releases
- 1980–2025
- Active years
- 1953
- Formed
Artist
Robert Cray is a blues artist from Columbus, USA formed in 1953. 35 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Blues · Columbus, USA · Best blues albums
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Showdown!
1985 · 9 tracks
Twenty
2005
Time Will Tell
2003
Brand New Day (Live)
2025
You Know I Feel All Right (Live Chicago '85)
2024
Double Time (Live San Francisco '87)
2023
Standing My Own Ground (Live 1980)
2022
Have Mercy! (Eugene, Oregon Live '78)
2020
That's What I Heard
2020
Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
2017
4 Nights of 40 Years Live
2015
Paramount (Remastered) (Live At The Paramount Theatre, Springfield, MA, Feb 12, 1989)
2015
Heritage Of The Blues: Phone Booth
2014
In My Soul
2014
Nothin But Love
2012
Authorized Bootleg - Live, Outdoor Concert, Austin, Texas, 5/25/87
2010
This Time
2009
The Score
2009
Live at the BBC
2008
Robert Cray Live At The BBC
2007
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Robert Cray
2002
Shoulda Been Home
2001
Take Your Shoes Off
1999
Sweet Potato Pie
1997
Some Rainy Morning
1995
Shame + A Sin
1993
I Was Warned
1992
Midnight Stroll
1990
Strong Persuader
1986
Bad Influence
1983
Who's Been Talkin'
1980
Robert Cray (born August 1, 1953, Columbus, Georgia, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, as well as an acclaimed solo career. Cray started playing guitar in his early teens. He attended Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia. By the age of twenty, Cray had seen his heroes Albert Collins, Freddie King and Muddy Waters in concert and decided to form his own band; they began playing college towns on the West Coast. In the late 1970s he lived in Eugene, Oregon, where he formed the Robert Cray Band and collaborated with Curtis Salgado in the Cray-Hawks. In the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House, Cray was the uncredited bassist in the house party band Otis Day and the Knights. After several years of regional success, Cray was signed to Mercury Records in 1982. Two albums on HighTone Records in the mid-80s, Bad Influence and False Accusations, were moderately successful in the United States and in Europe, where he was building a reputation as a live artist. His fourth album release, Strong Persuader, produced by Dennis Walker, received a Grammy Award, while the crossover single "Smokin' Gun" gav…
