Robert Cray
Robert Cray
Robert Crayis an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, and had an acclaimed solo career...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth1 August 1953
CityColumbus, GA
CountryUnited States of America
bring everybody guys pick putting songs stuff time together
If I bring in an idea for a song, I show it to the guys and they pick up and put down the beat, the groove, the organ, and all that stuff where they feel it is. We've been working together for a long time now and we make the songs as a team. Everybody has a voice. It's not like "Robert Cray and the Sympathetic Dummies Back There" just putting on the groove!
american-musician hendrix liked
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.
behind fun learning recording song takes trying
The idea behind that was trying to get that spontaneity that comes with learning the song for the first time, ... Over-rehearsing kind of takes the fun out of recording it makes it 'perfect,' but lifeless.
band contribute difference front guitar guys music others people playing recordings robert singing studio
The difference between our band and others out there is that we're called "The Robert Cray Band" and I'm out front singing and playing guitar but the guys in the band contribute a lot more to the music we do than most people know. They play on all of the studio recordings and we write together.
character jamaicans bad-things
I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.
play order able
In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.
war people greed
I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.
melody
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.
guitar notches
She was just another notch on my guitar.
politics lawyer boat
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.
jobs love-life trying
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.
song writing thinking
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!
political age vote
I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.
fall infidelity midnight
Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.