Artist: Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
Album: Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
Bitrate: 241kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Jay-Vee Records
Genre: Blues
Size: 91.51 megs
PlayTime: 0h 50min 20sec total
Rip Date: 2017-05-13
Store Date: 2017-04-28

Track List:
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01. The Same Love That Made Me       3:51
    Laugh
02. You Must Believe In Yourself     3:40
03. I Don't Care                     5:27
04. Aspen, Colorado                  4:19
05. Just How Low                     3:51
06. You Had My Heart                 4:53
07. I'm With You (Part 1)            4:22
08. Honey Bad                        6:08
09. They Way We Are                  5:04
10. Don't Steal My Love              5:26
11. I'm With You (Part 2)            3:19

Release Notes:
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Continuing his revived collaboration with producer Steve Jordan -- the pair
first worked together on 1999's Take Your Shoes Off, then reunited on 2014's In
My Soul -- Robert Cray headed to Memphis to cut his 18th studio set with members
of the legendary Hi Rhythm Section. Setting up shop at Royal Studios, Cray got
to work on a handful of originals and a collection of covers, not all of them
strictly related to Memphis. In particular, Cray pushes swamp rocker Tony Joe
White and "5" Royales leader Lowman Pauling, cutting two songs from each writer.
These sit alongside a pair of tunes from Sir Mack Rice (the author of "Mustang
Sally"), a version of Bill Withers' "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh," and
three originals by Cray, so the album casts its net wide but unites these
various styles and eras through the prism of sleek Memphis soul. Jordan evokes
the smooth, soulful shimmer of Hi at its peak, but the record never seems
studied or an exercise in nostalgia; there's an elegance to the grooves that
seems effortless. "The Way We Are," a Cray original, simmers like Al Green but
most of the album is funkier, reaching an apex with both "You Must Believe in
Yourself" and the cooking "Don't Steal My Love," which happens to be graced by a
cameo from its author, Tony Joe White. His appearance underscores how Robert
Cray has gotten a lift from his new collaborators: supported by the Hi Rhythm
Section he sounds livelier and grittier than he has in years, and that passion
serves as a nice counterpoint to the smooth grooves on Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm.

