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Robert Cray
Renowned for giving the blues a more, soulful, polished sheen, Robert Cray has
played with Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker and Bob Dylan and is regarded as one
of the most skilful guitarists of his kind. Raised in a military family, he
started playing in his teens in Virginia with first band Steakface, before
building a growing reputation in his twenties when he teamed up with Curtis
Salgado and lit up Oregon's blues-rock scene as the Cray-Hawks. Signed to
Mercury in 1982, his fifth album Strong Persuader (1986) proved the big
breakthrough, winning his first of three Grammy Awards,...
