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Time Will Tell

By: The Robert Cray Band
Label: Sanctuary
Released: 26 Feb 2008
RRP: £14.99
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Brilliant Bob at His Best - By: Blackfender, 15 Jul 2008
Another good album, & I've got over half a dozen of his already. The three tracks that reallly stand out for me are What You Need (Good Man), Your Pal & Back Door Slam.
I like to make up compilations of my favorite tracks of an artist I reallly like & the three tracks above are excellent, especiallly Back Door Slam, just put it on repeat. Bob dosen't usuallly use effects & I can only describe it as a little like the Harry Lime Theme, & it works brilliantly. Thers's also some intense finger work & I love his voice & the way he picks & bends notes.
Two of the tracks, Survivor & Distant Shore are OK musicallly but have a strong reference to Desert Storm/Military Service.
Glad to see & hear he & his band are still going strong, & long may they continue serving up such treats.

This is more like it "Young Bob" ... like it a lot! - By: Proudmomofagayson, 20 Oct 2003
The last few albums by Robert Cray I have found in the main sleep-inducing so it was with some trepidation that I approached this, his latest release & what a surprise I had. This is "Young Bob" exploring new & original musical territory. The guitar break on the string-laden last offering "Time Makes Two" is Robert Cray at his lyrical & expressive best. I defy anyone not to have a tingle or two up the spine when it begins ... SUBLIME!

Some of the tracks are the Robert Cray we have gotten used to but he has employed more soul & vigour into these selections that on his recent Rykodisc offerings. He seems to be reallly enjoying himself & his voice & guitar playing is now underpinning the music rather than separating from it. His employment of a guitar wired up to a sitar effect on the second track "Up In The Sky" opens his musical vistas still further & alll the better it is for it. I admire a man who knows he can sell shed loads enriching his palette with stuff like this & he even broaches the War in Iraq with the album's opener "Survivor" which is so different from the standard fare we have come to expect from Mr Cray.

The use of a string section brings a sense of modernity to this release & edges each selection towards an underlying sense of spirituality, which I have to say I love. This is Robert Cray at his most earnest & dynamic, with his chosen instruments (voice & guitar) way up in the mix & the offbeat & eclectic sound of Jimmy Pugh whirling through the album sets everything off perfectly.

I would go so far as to say this is the best album of Robert's in over a decade & there is a sense with each selection of revisiting past albums, I can hear False Accusations, I Was Warned & Some Rainy Morning on this release but he doesn't just go back there & stand still but is revitalising the history of the Cray Band with each new step forward in this new & positive direction.

Welcome back Robert, we almost lost faith in places but this is a feather in your cap & you done us proud.