SOME RAINY MORNING - CD

SOME RAINY MORNING was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Robert Cray/Robert Cray Band: Robert Cray (vocals, guitar); Jim Pugh (piano, organ); Karl Sevareid (bass guitar); Kevin Hayes (drums). Audio Mixer: Steve Savage. Recording information: Studio D, Sausalito, CA. Illustrator: Keith Graves. Photographer: Jeff Katz. SOME RAINY MORNING is a typically expert set of modern blues and soul from a peerless master. Robert Cray's band certainly has the whole Booker T. & the M.G.'s thing down, too. "Moan," the self-descriptive opener, occasions some of Cray's most stinging Otis Rush-derived guitar lines. "Enough for Me" alternates between vaguely Latin syncopation in the verses and straight shuffle in the solo sections. "Little Boy Blue" is decorated with shimmering soul guitar filigree and could pass easily for a lost Otis Redding song, and "Jealous Love" has an early '60s Chicago R&B feel a la Jerry Butler.