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Lensic 360 Presents
The Robert Cray Band, July 23, 2023 7:30 PM
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July 23, 2023 7:30 PM
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Lensic 360 Presents
The Robert Cray Band
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Tickets on sale: Friday March 31, 2023 at 10am
The Robert Cray Band will be touring the US and UK for the first time since the 2020 release of
his album, That’s What I Heard. Dates include a California run in April, followed by the UK in
May. Cray will hit the northeast in June, with a return to New York City on June 7 at Sony Hall.
“Funky, cool and bad,” is how Cray describes the Grammy-nominated album, produced by
longtime collaborator, Steve Jordan, who adds, “I thought, if we could get this thing that Sam
Cooke used to have, the kind of sound that early Sam Cooke records had, that we could pull
this off.”
“Robert Cray is not only making music, he’s making history,” writes Guitar Player Magazine.
Over the past four decades, Cray has created a sound that rises from American roots, blues,
soul and R&B, with five Grammy wins, 20 acclaimed studio and live albums that punctuate the
Blues Hall of Famer’s career. On That’s What I Heard, Robert celebrates the music of Curtis
Mayfield, Bobby “Blue” Bland, The Sensational Nightingales and more, alongside Cray’s own
songs.
Cray and Jordan go way back, having met during the making of the Chuck Berry documentary
Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll, in 1987. They started working together in 1999, when Jordan produced
the Grammy-winning Take Your Shoes Off, and the recent Grammy-nominated LP, Robert Cray
& Hi Rhythm. That’s What I Heard is their sixth album. “Once you start working with Steve, it’s
kind of hard to get away from him,” said Robert.
“Robert is just a great person besides being extraordinary talent,” adds Jordan. “People
gravitate to his guitar playing first, but I think he’s one of the best singers I’ve heard in my life.
Not only because of his singing ability, but his interpretations. He’s such an honest soul in my
opinion.”
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