Bluesman Robert Cray explains his eclectic 40-year career—and his band’s ability to effortlessly straddle traditional blues, rock and R&B—this way: “We get excited about music still. You never know ...

He’s cool, calm and collected, but even master guitarist Robert Cray has his moments of fanboy glee. Take, for instance, the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, a benefit concert to assist the Crossroads ...

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If you want a reminder of just how much the music industry has changed in the past few decades, consider the case of Robert Cray’s 1986 hit “Smoking Gun.” Based out of the Pacific Northwest, Cray ...

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Long before he was famous, Robert Cray got schooled in the blues by jamming alongside Muddy Waters, Albert Collins and John Lee Hooker. Now, at 72, the singer-guitarist worries today’s young blues ...

The Robert Cray Band will perform at Solvang Festival Theater on Saturday, Nov. 1; doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Blues icon Cray has spent five decades shaping American music with ...

Robert Cray was the blues laureate of infidelity in the ’80s and early ’90s, a smooth and innovative classic-soul craftsman who brought synthesizers to blues, gave John Lee Hooker a career-jolting ...

Legendary guitarist and bluesman Robert Cray didn’t set out to carry on the American blues tradition when he first picked up a guitar as a teenager in Tacoma, Washington. He wanted to be in the ...

Robert Cray will perform at The Egg in Albany on Thursday, a stop on a tour celebrating his 50th anniversary of performing with his band. “What we do is play a new set list every night, and we change ...

Back in the early 1980s, Robert Cray was the young American firebrand guitarist who along with Stevie Ray Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds made the blues hip to a new generation too young to ...