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About Take Your Shoes Off
Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE Amazon.com Robert Cray's spent the '90s evolving from West Coast bluesman to Memphis soul belter. So Cray's restrained guitar playing on his first CD for Rykodisc--after his unhappy departure from his longtime label Mercury--comes as no surprise. What's shocking is the utter perfection of his emulation of the signature sounds of the classic Stax and Hi Records singles of the '60s and early '70s. Cray's voice exhibits the delirious growl-to-falsetto flights of a young on numbers like "What About Me," "Love Gone to Waste," and the prisoner-of-love weeper "Pardon." But his arrangements--heavy on kick drum, fatback horn grooves, and organ flourishes--retain a grit that Hi in particular lost over time. And when he launches into a guitar solo like the probing corker that climaxes his take on 's "Toll the Bells," Cray rekindles the influence of his late mentor and reasserts himself as a torchbearer of stinging blues. --Ted Drozdowski Review The album is animated, airy, and decidedly soulful. -- Vibe From the Label On his Rykodisc debut, Cray's passion for sweet soul music takes center stage. Recalling the timeless soul magic of the Stax and Hi labels, Take Your Shoes Off updates that sound with an injection of Robert's dynamic vocals and guitar. Avoiding glossy studio techniques, producer Steve Jordan (Keith Richards, Aretha Franklin) captures a raw, gritty, and emotional experience. Take Your Shoes Off may well be the best soul album of the last two decades and is The Robert Cray Band's finest hour. Since the release of 1986's multi-platinum, Grammy®-winning Strong Persuader album, Robert Cray has comfortably ruled modern blues, but the stunning soul sounds of Take Your Shoes Off prove that Cray truly lives at the crossroads of rock, R&B, blues and soul music.
