Robert Cray

On Take Your Shoes Off, guitarist Robert Cray makes a beeline for Memphis circa 1965,
leaving his major label, producer title (Aretha Franklin and Keith Richards guru Steve
Jordan helms here) and most of his blues fireworks at the door. This is a slow-burning soul
record -- and one of the most focused albums of Cray's twenty-five-year career. From the
confident groove of "All the Way" (co-written with his wife) to the joyous choru... More >