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McAninch Arts Center
at College of DuPage
presents
The Robert Cray Band
Presented in partnership with
Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015
Belushi Performance Hall, 8 p.m.
PROFILE
“You gotta’ keep your ears open and expand your
mind.”—Robert Cray
Open ears and an open mind are the essence
of singer, guitarist and songwriter Robert Cray’s
approach to writing, recording and playing music.
He has created a sound that rises from American
roots and arrives today both fresh and familiar.
In just over 40 years Cray and his band have
recorded 20 studio releases—15 of which have
been on the Billboard charts—and played bars,
concert halls, festivals and arenas around the
world. There are five Grammys with Cray’s name
on them, and he has a suitcase full of W.C. Handy
blues awards. Four years ago Cray was inducted
into the Blues Hall of Fame.
On Aug. 28 the Mascot Label Group celebrated
the vibrancy of the Cray Band’s rocking rootsy
blues, soul-filled ballads and timeless R&B with
the release of 4 Nights of 40 Years Live. Through
clips of concerts from the ’80s and four recent
shows, the evolution from the Cray Band unfolds.
Comments by Cray and band members add
depth, and interviews with Eric Clapton, Keith
Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmie Vaughan and
Buddy Guy put the band in perspective. The
three-piece set will be available in a variety of
formats: 2 LPs + Mp3, 2 CDs + DVD, Blu-Ray +
2 CDs and digitally.
Growing up in the Northwest, Robert Cray
listened to the gospel of the Five Blind Boys of
Mississippi, Bobby Bland’s soul, Jimi Hendrix’s
rock guitar and the Beatles’ pop sounds. He
would bring all of the influences into play
throughout his career, but his teenage band was
captivated by Southern Soul and the blues.
“In the early days of the band we were getting
back into O.V. Wright and paying attention to my
favorite blues players: Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Albert
King and especially Albert Collins,” Cray says.
The Texas-born blues guitarist known as Master
of the Telecaster, Albert Collins, sealed the deal
on the Cray Band’s early direction. The musical
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highlight of Cray’s senior year was his class voting
to bring Collins in to play a graduation party.
The glow of a career in music began when Cray
was a teen, and in 1974 it burst into flames as
the Robert Cray Band came together in Eugene,
Oregon. How strong was the fire? “Richard and
I didn’t own a vehicle, and we were staying with
his girlfriend in Eugene. We hitched a ride to
Salem, where our drummer Tom Murphy was
going to school, to rehearse,” Cray recalls.
With the group’s 1980 debut release, Who’s
Been Talkin’, word about the Cray Band began
to spread across the Northwest and down in to
California. Playing packed bars and roadhouses,
the Cray Band was thrilling. Yes, fans could hear
an Albert Collins guitar riff and a Howlin’ Wolf
song, but the sound was present. Blues and soul
fans showed up religiously, but those steamy
raucous sets also drew crowds whose tastes in
music ranged from rock to funk and jazz.
Also among the Cray Band admirers were other
musicians. John Lee Hooker put his appreciation
into action. “The first time we played with Hooker
was in Montana. We were opening the set and
he was playing solo,” Cray recalls. “We’d never
met him before but he just walked on stage and
started playing with us. We dug the hell out of the
guy, and after that we were friends.”
The Cray Band’s next two releases — Bad
Influence and False Accusations — charted,
taking the four-piece’s sound across the airways
and abroad. The group was on a roll, but the
players slept on couches. “We were just road
rats,” Cray says with a chuckle. “We’d take a
break for two weeks to record, then go back out.
We didn’t have a house, a home, any of those
responsibilities.” On one of those breaks Cray
went into the studio with Collins and another great
Texas guitarist and singer, Johnny Clyde Copeland,
to record Showdown!, a CD that has become
essential to any ’80’s electric blues collection.
It was the sounds of the blues and soul that first
drew attention from artists in the rock arena.
In an interview on the DVD included in 4 Nights
of 40 Years Live, Eric Clapton gives his initial
response to Robert Cray, saying, “As a blues
fan, we’re saved.” The Cray Band’s beginnings
did bring the sounds of its mentors into the
mainstream, even taking the music of John Lee
Hooker, Etta James and Albert Collins to a larger,
younger audience. But no one knew how broad
the band’s audience would be until the Cray Band
opened the ears of rock radio programmers.
With the 1986 release of Strong Persuader the
Cray Band’s tunes were put in heavy rotation on
mega rock stations across the nation. The first
hit, “Smoking Gun,” was followed by “I Guess I
Showed Her” and “Right Next Door (Because of
Me).” The Cray Band’s next two releases, Don’t
Be Afraid of the Dark and Midnight Stroll, brought
more radio listeners to record stores, increasing
sales of the group’s CDs.
Following the path of fame taken by bluesbased rockers like Johnny Winter and Stevie
Ray Vaughan, Cray became a sensation, leading
his band in concerts at large arenas and rock
festivals. He was the first African American
artist since Jimi Hendrix to rise to such fame in
rock music. Was there a change in the band’s
direction or had the blues arrived again into the
mainstream after more than three decades of
being forgotten by radio? “We were doing blues
and R&B from the first,” Cray says. “That’s just
part of what we do. If you’re writing a tune it’s
only natural to grab something from someplace
else. You’re gonna’ put in some soul changes
and some jazz, something you’ve been listening
to. With what we do there’s a whole lot of room
to move.”
Clapton’s admiration for Cray led to a writing
collaboration on the hit “Old Love,” which
featured Cray on guitar. A call came from Rolling
Stone guitarist Keith Richards who asked him
to be in the film he and Steve Jordan were
producing about the rock guitarist Chuck Berry,
Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll. Concert footage in the
film features Richards, Jordan, Clapton, Julian
Lennon, Linda Ronstadt and Etta James. Cray
performs “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” with
Berry. Dressed in a baby blue tuxedo jacket, the
young guitarist is the epitome of the tune’s title.
Cray also performed on the Tina Turner TV special
Break Every Rule.
During the ’90s the Cray Band was featured in
concert with artists like Clapton, the Stones, John
Lee Hooker, BB King and Bonnie Raitt, who on
the DVD declares the band leader is “an original;
he’s passionate, he’s a bad ass and puts on one
of the best shows you’ll ever see.”
Amidst these accolades, soaring record sales
and a packed touring schedule, the Cray Band
recorded six CDs in the ’90s. Cray produced
Shame + A Sin, which referenced his blues
roots, in 1993. It was followed by two more
self-produced recordings, Some Rainy Morning
and Sweet Potato Pie. Recorded in Memphis
and featuring the famed Memphis Horns, Sweet
Potato Pie was the Cray Band’s most soulful
album to date. The next recording Take Off Your
Shoes delved even deeper into Memphis sounds
of the ’60s. “That was definitely a soul record,”
Cray says. “I’d already been writing songs, Jim
(Pugh, who was keyboards with the Cray Band
from 1989 to 2014) was writing songs, leaning
toward soul. Steve (Jordan, producer) heard
them and put the icing on the cake.” Jordan,
who subsequently produced the Cray Band’s
In My Soul, Shoulda Been Home and the first
CD in 4 Nights of 40 Years Live, also brought
the personification of Memphis soul to the
recording session, Willie Mitchell, to help with
arrangements for the Memphis Horns. Mitchell
discovered and first recorded Al Green along with
other Southern Soul singers like Ann Peebles,
O.V. Wright and Syl Johnson for the famed
Memphis label Hi Records. When he arrived at
the Cray recording session, he brought not only
the Memphis presence but also a present. “Willie
came over—he was wearing a gold jacket—and
gave me this song, Love Gone to Waste,” Cray
says. “Then we put some final touches on the
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CD at his studio in Memphis. It was a great
opportunity to see Willie in the studio.”
Both on Take Your Shoes Off and 4 Nights of 40
Years Live, “Love Gone to Waste” showcases
Robert Cray’s natural ease with soul ballads.
He is intense but smooth in telling the story of
love gone bad. Then in a falsetto voice he soars
through the sadness into the inevitable pain. It is
a song that Cray owns because no other singer
has dared try to do it justice. Take Your Shoes Off
won a Grammy in 2000.
In the next decade the Cray Band recorded seven
CDs, three of them live, and two—Twenty and
This Time—were nominated for Grammys. The
group’s most recent recordings, Nothing but
Love and In My Soul put the band back on the
Billboard Charts.
The multimedia 4 Nights of 40 Years Live is a
testament to the band’s longevity and vitality.
The ’80s concert footage is exuberant and
shows the charisma of Young Bob (a reference
in song that Cray makes to himself in homage
to Muddy Waters calling himself Young Muddy)
as a guitarist, vocalist and band leader. The
live performances at recent concerts capture
seasoned musicians bringing a vivid, illustrative
past into the moment. Cray’s Stratocaster solos
sing, cry and take on the funk. His voice has
grown richer and wiser yet remains sweet.
It is extraordinary for musicians to thrive over
four decades, and the Robert Cray Band is just
that, an extraordinary story of success. On the
DVD, Texas blues and R&B artist Jimmie Vaughan
sums up Robert Cray’s singularity and success
simply when he says, “He’s got one foot in the
future and one foot in the old stuff.”
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Arts Center, please stop by our Box Office to add
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at www.AtTheMAC.org.
• Cameras and recording devices are not allowed
in the theater and are prohibited by our contracts
with the artists.
• Smoking is not permitted in the theater or on campus.
• Electronic pagers and patrons’ seat locations should
be given to the House Manager, who will notify you
in the event of a call. Patrons wearing wristwatch
alarms or carrying cellular phones are respectfully
requested to turn them off while in the theater.
• Emergency phone number at College of DuPage Police
Department for after-hour calls is (630) 942-2000.
• Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the
House Manager.
• Groups of 15 or more may contact the Box Office at
(630) 942-4000 to arrange for group discounts.
• College of DuPage is now tobacco free.
• McAninch Arts Center volunteers are people
who assist the house staff in areas of ticket taking,
ushering and general management during
performances. To get involved, call (630) 942-4000.
• For Americans With Disabilities Act
accommodations, call (630) 942-2141 (voice)
or (630) 858-9692 (TDD).
• Infrared Assistive Listening Devices: For
audience members who desire audio amplification
of performances, headsets with individual volume
controls are now available. You may check out the
headsets at the Ticket Office with a credit card or
driver’s license. Underwritten by a generous gift
from The Knowles Foundation.
For monthly updates register your email at www.AtTheMAC.org
MAC Administrative Staff
Director of the McAninch Arts Center.............................................................................. Diana Martinez
Marketing and Donor Relations Coordinator.......................................................................Roland Raffel
Business Manager..........................................................................................................Ellen McGowan
Cleve Carney Art Gallery Curator.......................................................................................... Justin Witte
Education and Community Engagement Coordinator......................................................... Janey Sarther
Director of Development for Cultural Arts.......................................................................... Janie Oldfield
Group and Rental Sales Coordinator............................................................................. Melissa Mercado
Administrative Assistant....................................................................................................Mandy Rakow
Student Assistants...............................................................Sherry Gendel, Molly Junokas, Ana Moultrie
MAC Box Office and Front of House Staff
Box Office Manager...............................................................................................................Julie Elges
Assistant Box Office Manager......................................................................................Mary Ellen Reedy
Box Office Assistants.......................................................................... Colleen Trinko, Gretchen Woodley
Patron Service Manager....................................................................................................... Tom Murray
Patron Services Assistant..................................................................................................... Rob Nardini
House Manager..............................................................................................................Jessica Shelvik
MAC Resident Professional Ensemble
New Philharmonic, Conductor and Music Director..............................................................Kirk Muspratt
New Philharmonic Manager............................................................................................... Paula Cebula
MAC Design and Technical Staff
Technical Production Coordinator.............................................................................................Jon Gantt
Technical Director........................................................................................................ Michael W. Moon
Costume and Make-up Design Coordinator................................................................ Kimberly G. Morris
Production Manager............................................................................................................ Joe Hopper
Assistant Production Managers....................................................................Ben Johnson, Elias Morales
Sound and Equipment Manager...............................................................................................Bob Murr
Stage Hands................................................................. Bobby Bryan, Amanda Hantson, Sabrina Zeidler
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