Robert Cray - Strong Persuader (1986/2015) 24/192 torrent

Robert Cray - Strong Persuader (1986/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 39:20 minutes | 1,58 GB
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Blues guitarist Robert Cray's double platinum breakthrough is included on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s and remains one of the highest-charting blues album in history, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard mainstream album chart in 1987. A good part of the album's success was due to the hit single Smoking Gun which Rolling Stone called "a smoldering tale of jealousy and murder". This album won a 1988 Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Recording.





"Strong Persuader" was a milestone both for Robert Cray and blues in the '80s. It earned Cray, a veteran of the Pacific Northwest blues scene, both his first solo Grammy and Top 30 hit ('Smoking Gun') along with a lift out of the blues ghetto which he'd been excelling in during recent years. As for the blues themselves, Cray infused fresh blood into a genre that had been limping along in that particular decade. With a smooth singing style to go with an equally recognizable guitar tone, Cray developed a sound that owed as much to soul stylist O.V. Wright as it did to Texas guitarist Albert Collins (with whom Cray had won a Grammy along with Johnny Copeland the prior year). The use of the Memphis Horns strengthened the soul connection on songs such as the punchy 'Nothing But A Woman' and the chugging effervescence of 'Guess I Showed Her.' Of course, Cray's heart lay in the blues and when he wasn't lamenting the woes of infidelity in 'Right Next Door (Because Of Me)' and a bad break-up in 'Still Around,' his guitar playing smoldered throughout the forlorn 'New Blood'.


Tracklist:

01 - Smoking Gun
02 - I Guess I Showed Her
03 - Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
04 - Nothin' But A Woman
05 - Still Around
06 - More Than I Can Stand
07 - Foul Play
08 - I Wonder
09 - Fantasized
10 - New Blood

Produced by Bruce Bromberg & Dennis Walker.
Recorded at Sage & Sound, Los Angeles; Haywood's, LA.
Digitally remastered.

Musicians:
Robert Cray - vocals, guitar
Richard Cousins - bass
David Olson - drums
Lee Spath - percussion
Peter Boe - keyboards
Andrew Love - tenor saxophone
Wayne Jackson - trumpet, trombone