Robert Cray Band
The Cubby Bear
Chicago, IL
1985-05-11

Source: FM SBD (WXRT) > ? > C by Rob Robles
Transfer: Transfer: C (SA-90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
Master: Wavelab 11 (tracking, levels, remove DC offset, DDI Codec (Dolby B, -36.6 dBFS), resample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

01. Tom Marker intro
02. Move Back Baby
03. Phone Booth
04. Don't Touch Me
05. All About My Girl
06. Too Many Cooks
07. Bad Influence
08. T-Bone Shuffle
09. Her Porch Light's On
10. Wrapped Up In Love Again >
11. Let Me Love // You Baby
12. I've Got My Eyes On you
13. I Got Loaded

Robert Cray - guitar
Peter Boe - keyboards
Richard Cousins - bass
David Olsen - drums

Intro by Tom Marker who hosted Blues Breakers, an hour-long show broadcast on WXRT on Monday night starting in 1983 (it moved to Sunday night at some point). The program ran an hour, with 5 or 8 minutes of commercials, but a 90-minute cassette runs for only 45 minutes per side, so there's a break in Let Me Love You Baby, which has been cross-faded. You'll notice it, but it's not bad.

This performance is also noted as being on May 10 but Tom Marker ends the broadcast with the venue and date, "5/11/85" so that's that. A December 1985 article states that Cray played the venue earlier that year. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-12-13-8503260273-story.html

Thanks to Rob Robles for taping this, or trading with someone who did.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-06-26