‘Cookin’ in Mobile’ sizzles!

08-04-2010

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Scott Malchus of Eat Sleep Drink Music recently reviewed The Robert Cray Band’s newly released Cookin’ in Mobile, praising the record for serving as a “real concert experience, with the band giving the songs new life from their studio counterparts,” and discussing Robert Cray’s place in modern blues history:

“In the 1980s, when rock music took a slick turn and anyone playing the blues was kind of poo pooed, several artists carried the torch until the rest of the music world woke up from their hairspray-induced coma and rediscovered the blues. The two most prominent were Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray. Cray’s status is often overshadowed by the flashier Vaughan, but his place in the annals of blues rock is just as important as the deceased guitar god from Texas. The Robert Cray Band has continued to put out solid, plucky albums (18 so far) since their debut in 1980, while still dazzling audiences with their phenomenal live concerts. That expertise of the Robert Cray Band is on full display throughout Cookin’ in Mobile….”

(Read the rest of the review here.)

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