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About Bad Influence
Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE Amazon.com When the Washington-state-based bluesman cut this album, his second, for Hightone in 1983, Robert Cray was still four years away from his major-label, Top 40 hit "Smoking Gun." Nonetheless, his signature sound is intact: horn-colored Stax-style arrangements, a backbeat laced with funk, Cray's own gospelized vocals, and the stiletto-tipped notes that he rips from his Stratocaster. A few years later covered the title song; but what's most fun here is listening to Cray pay homage to his good influences. He covers numbers by and , and charges into his guitar solos with a brittle tone and bristling attack that at times recalls the underrated Watson, Cray's mentor , and Chicago legend . But it's really the sound of a modern virtuoso distilling his craft from the raw material of blues history. --Ted Drozdowski Review A portent of impressive things to come. In 1983 Cray's second album trickled out of Oakland and turned a few heads. Here was a thirty-year-old unknown capable of co-writing articulate, absolutely gripping songs of forlornness ("Phone Booth") and complicated love-lust relationships ("The Grinder," "Bad Influence"). Less involving then were his spiky guitar work- too emulative of Albert King's-and his not-yet-ripe singing. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993 -- From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
