Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm – Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm

NEW VINYL LP ON JAY-VEE RECORDS 2017

180 GRAM VINYL.

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.

Tracklist

The Same Love That Made Me Laugh 3:51
You Must Believe In Yourself 3:40
I Don't Care 5:27
Aspen, Colorado 4:19
Just How Low 3:51
You Had My Heart 4:53
I'm With You, Pt. 1 4:22
Honey Bad 6:08
The Way We Are 5:04
Don't Steal My Love 5:26
I'm With You, Pt. 2 3:19