Musician Robert Cray will walk onto the stage Sept. 16 at the Charleston Music Hall and let 50 years of the blues flow through his guitar. For five decades, Cray and his namesake band have been ...

Forty-five years after releasing his first album, “Who’s Been Talkin’,” Robert Cray is nothing but pleased to still be around and making a living by playing his guitar and singing. “It had always been ...

Robert Cray had yet to take the masses by storm with the smoldering blues of “Smoking Gun,” the breakthrough single from his “Strong Persuader” album, when he found himself in Keith Richards’ St.

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The Robert Cray Band has won five Grammy awards and has played alongside some of the giants of blues. But the origin story of the band is in Eugene during the 1970s. The Robert Cray Band makes its ...

Five decades ago, when Robert Cray first started cooking up his signature stew of blues, soul, R&B, and rock, critics and fans, alike, tabbed it somewhat generically and conveniently as “modern blues.

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 ...

On first listen, The Robert Cray Band's new CD, "Time Will Tell," sounds as if the guitarist/singer/songwriter has turned to Eastern music. Cray plays something ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The bands Rick Estrin & the Nightcats and Sugar Ray & the Bluetones have each received five nominations for the annual Blues Music Awards. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, The Blues ...

About four years ago, while performing at an outdoor festival in Memphis, veteran blues singer Robert Cray turned around and spotted the great soul man Bobby "Blue" Bland in a sailor's cap on the side ...

Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater will be hosting two musical greats over the next few days: noted jazz composer and saxophonist Miguel Zenón and blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray, a ...