- Audio CD (Jan 1 1990)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B000001FKR
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #27,094 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Smoking Gun |
| 2. I Guess I Showed Her |
| 3. Right Next Door (Because Of Me) |
| 4. Nothin' But A Woman |
| 5. Still Around |
| 6. More Than I Can Stand |
| 7. Foul Play |
| 8. I Wonder |
| 9. Fantasized |
| 10. New Blood |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Stinging urban blues by way of Texas and Memphis distinguish Robert Cray's major-label debut, which followed three strong independent releases. Here he fleshes out his sound with bursts of brassy Southern soul courtesy of the Memphis Horns, but keeps his pungent, steely guitar solos out front in an engaging dialogue with his plaintive vocals. Released in 1986, Strong Persuader signaled that Cray, as a writer--like his contemporary Stevie Ray Vaughan--had something to say about his interior life beyond the usual bluesman's laments, an approach that pays homage to the music's rich traditions while suggesting new areas of inquiry. --David McGee
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Stinging urban blues by way of Texas and Memphis distinguish Robert Cray's major-label debut, which followed three strong independent releases. Here he fleshes out his sound with bursts of brassy Southern soul courtesy of the Memphis Horns, but keeps his pungent, steely guitar solos out front in an engaging dialogue with his plaintive vocals. Released in 1986, Strong Persuader signaled that Cray, as a writer--like his contemporary Stevie Ray Vaughan--had something to say about his interior life beyond the usual bluesman's laments, an approach that pays homage to the music's rich traditions while suggesting new areas of inquiry. --David McGee
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A classic!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Strong Persuader (Audio CD)
Robert Cray took the music scene by grit force with this sexy original album. His voice croons like maple syrup and his guitar player is edgy and raw. This is a classic album at the beginning of a stella career as Mr Robert Cray has gone on to receive 11grammy nominations and won 5 ." The album has a flow and I never get bored of listening to it. An album not to be missed and one that belongs in any serious music collection.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Leave this in your cd changer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Strong Persuader (Audio CD)
It's like butta- it just melts around you and you sort of forget it's there though it becomes your personal soundtrack. Yo Cray man, you gotta throw in some lousy tunes now and then! When you have an album of all 10's it's almost too perfect. But hell, I can't argue. Put this on when you got that special lady over- it'll turn her loose quickstyle.I'm glad you were doin your own thing in Hail Hail Rock and Roll by the way...keep it real.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Paint-by-the-numbers so-called blues...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Strong Persuader (Audio CD)
I knew Robert Cray's music before I bought this CD, having seen him appear as a guest artist in video of a Tina Turner concert. However, after thoroughly investigating Chicago and Delta musicians of the Blues' Golden Age (1930s to mid 1960s), I thought I should give him a fair hearing to see what all the fuss was about. Sure, I expected the music to be in the broad-appeal, slick vein and that it would not be something that I would put on as often as, say, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Hooker, Guitar Slim et al, but I did not expect it to be some of the most vapid music that I have ever heard, regardless of genre. Cray's lyrics are strictly paint-by-the-numbers on a the Love-Gone-Wrong theme. At times, they are so corny and banal that I wince. The music is souless and totally unoriginal. At best, Cray has the technique to be a good session guitarist but there are plenty of session guitarists out there that play as well as he does. If someone tells you that if you are going to have only one blues CD, this is the one, you will know that person knows nothing about the blues. Try this quick (but time-wasting) test: listen to Strong Persuader(at least give poor Bob a break by listening to him first) and then listen to Muddy Waters: His Best 1947-1955 (MCA/Chess) and ask yourself if the two CDs are even from the same genre. The music on Strong Persuader is: totally banal, irrelevant, and an insult to the intelligence....TO AVOID
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