{"id":7633,"date":"2012-10-29T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7633"},"modified":"2012-10-29T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:57:16","slug":"the-robert-cray-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/10\/the-robert-cray-band\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ROBERT CRAY BAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7634\" title=\"THE-ROBERT-CRAY-BAND-M-Review-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/THE-ROBERT-CRAY-BAND-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/THE-ROBERT-CRAY-BAND-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/THE-ROBERT-CRAY-BAND-M-Review-SeptOct-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE ROBERT CRAY BAND<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Nothin but Love<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Mascot]<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0For decades, singer and guitarist Robert Cray has been in an odd position. He\u2019s credited with bringing the blues back into the mainstream yet criticized for making the genre shiny and acceptable. His fans outnumber his detractors, though, and<em> Nothin but Love<\/em> reveals why. Produced by Kevin Shirley, the album is audacious and potent yet tidy and accessible. Cray and his band prefer their blues soundly framed and expertly executed. \u201cBlues Get Off My Shoulder\u201d arrives with urgency and a rush of horns and quickly settles into a groove. \u201c(Won\u2019t Be) Coming Home\u201d and \u201cFix This\u201d show Cray\u2019s soul side, while \u201cI\u2019m Done Cryin\u2019,\u201d with its silky strings and weepy wail, serves as a reminder of the emotion Cray can muster. And of course, there\u2019s the guitar. Cray\u2019s axemanship remains economical, poignant and free of clich\u00e9s. <em>Nothin but Love<\/em>doesn\u2019t break new ground, but it\u2019s honest and touching\u2014nothin\u2019 but real. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ROBERT CRAY BAND Nothin but Love [Mascot] \u00a0For decades, singer and guitarist Robert Cray has been in an odd position. He\u2019s credited with bringing the blues back into the mainstream yet criticized for making the genre shiny and acceptable. His fans outnumber his detractors, though, and Nothin but Love reveals why. Produced by Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3385,5084,5077,5083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7636,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions\/7636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}