Robert Cray

Robert Cray is still on his career-long mission to yank the blues out of its nostalgic torpor.
Alas, despite several adventurous arrangements, the accomplished axman with butter in his
voice is only partially successful on Time Will Tell. There are moments of blinding
inspiration here ("Up in the Sky," which juxtaposes Cray's electric sitar against the Turtle
Island String Quartet), but too much of Cray's thirteenth studio effort winds up b... More >

"Real" bluesman or not, he writes subtler songs than blues boosters can hear ("Up in the Sky," "Survivor"). (Grade - ***)