Robert Cray
Robert Cray (born August 1, 1953, Columbus, Georgia, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, and had an acclaimed solo career.
Career
Cray started guitar in his early teens. He attended Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia. By the age of twenty, Cray had seen his heroes Albert Collins, Freddie King and Muddy Waters in concert and decided to form his own band; they began playing college towns on the West Coast. In the late 1970s he lived in Eugene, Oregon, where he formed the Robert Cray Band and collaborated with Curtis Salgado in the Cray-Hawks. In the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House, Cray was the uncredited bassist in the house party band Otis Day and the Knights. After several years of regional success, Cray was signed to Mercury Records in 1982. Two albums on HighTone Records in the mid-1980s, Bad Influence and False Accusations, were moderately successful in the United States and in Europe, where he was building a reputation as a live artist. His fourth album release, Strong Persuader, produced by Dennis Walker, received a Grammy Award, while the crossover single "Smokin' Gun" gave him wider appeal and name recognition.
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ALBUMS
- This Time released: 2009
- Live at the BBC released: 2008
- Twenty released: 2005
- Heritage of the Blues released: 2003
- Time Will Tell released: 2003
- Shoulda Been Home released: 2001
- In Concert released: 1999
- Heavy Picks: The Robert Cray Band Collection released: 1999
- Take Your Shoes Off released: 1999
- Sweet Potato Pie released: 1997
- Some Rainy Morning released: 1995
- Shame + A Sin released: 1993
- I Was Warned released: 1992
- The Score released: 1992
- Midnight Stroll released: 1990
- Who's Been Talkin' released: 1989
- Bad Influence released: 1986
- Strong Persuader released: 1986
- Showdown! released: 1985
- The Best of Robert Cray released:
- The Definitive Collection released:
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Robert Cray released:
- New Blues released:
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Laugh Out Loud
by: Robert Cray BandI can look back now at all the years
I paid my dues
Every broken heart, every dead end
All those blues
It don't matter now
The tears I've waded through (?)
I can laugh out loud
I ended up with you
I can laugh out loud
I ended up with you
I can laugh out loud
At all the times I failed the test
Lost someone
And came out second best
I can see now
I had to learn a thing or two
I was practicing then
To get it right for you
Ohh, I can laugh out loud
Life and love
Ain't it a mystery
This road I've struggled down
Has thrown some curves at me
Who would have guessed
The grand-prize would be mine?
This late in the game
This far down the line?
I can look back now at all the years
I paid my dues
Every broken heart, every dead-end
All those blues
It don't matter now
The tears I've waded through
Ohh, I can laugh out loud
I ended up with you
I can laugh out loud
I ended up with you
Ohh, I can laugh out loud
I ended up with you
I can laugh out loud
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