Robert Cray Band
2009-11-08 (Sun)
Calvin Theatre
Northampton MA

Source: SP-CMC-2 > SP-SPSB-11 (w/69Hz bass roll off) > Zoom H2 (24bit/44.1kHz)

Location: Row 5, Seat 111 (FOB/LOC, 14' from stage)

Transfer: SDHC > USB2 > HD > Audacity (normalize, track splits) > WAV (16bit) > TLH > Flac8

[01:36:53]

01. Our Last Time
02. Poor Johnny
03. Love 2009
04. Bad Influence
05. Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
06. Chicken In The Kitchen
07. This Time
08. Phone Booth
09. To Be True
10. Back Door Slam
11. Sitting On Top Of The World
12. Trouble And Pain
13. Smoking Gun
14. encore call
15. E: I Can't Fail
16. That's What Keeps Me Rockin'
17. Time Makes Two

Personnel:
Robert Cray - guitar, vocals
Richard Cousins - bass
Tony Braunagel - drums
Jim Pugh - keyboards

On "This Time" (8/11/09) – Robert Cray's first studio effort in five years - 17th overall, he's packing a (mostly) new backing band alongside an all-new set of deep-soul ballads 'n' urbane blues, mostly penned by Cray himself. Bassist Richard Cousins, a member of Cray’s band from 1974-91, has rejoined the band. Drummer Tony Braunagel, well known for his work with the Phantom Blues Band, also has joined Cray and his longtime keyboardist Jim Pugh. Cray - who honed his chops (and copped a certain amount of his signature guitar style) playing behind the late, great Albert Collins - first stepped out of the sideman shadows and into the solo spotlight way back in 1974, working the Northwest blues circuit out of Portland, Oregon. (You can glimpse him playing bass in Otis Day & The Knights in Animal House, filmed in Portland). He's won five Grammys, cut a fistful of modern blues standards - "Phone Booth," "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark," "Smoking Gun," "Right Next Door (Because Of Me)" - racked up a platinum album with 1986's Strong Persuader (the first blues LP to reach the Top 20 since 1972!), and, gone fret-to-fret with Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland on the three-way, guitar-barfight "Showdown!" in 1985. His last disc was a 2006 double-CD live set recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London opening for his longtime pal/fellow admirer, Eric Clapton. "This Time" is supremely tasteful, not-a-note-wasted, guitar-oriented blues 'n' soul that hearkens back to the halcyon days of Stax, Hi, and Muscle Shoals.

Note: Johnny A opened

the O.V. Wright house music intro RC likes to use is omitted per dime policy, just a few notes from the intro are lost.

(suggested for cd burning - d1: t1-10, d2: t11-17)

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