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Review title: The right direction
Product review: This album is exactly right where "Ol' Bob" should be. His main detractors are annoyed that RC isn't doing hard-edged blues anymore. Where have they been? Except for the Grammy winning Showdown, RC's only blues album was his first (a nice new remaster available) and even that one had inklings of what was to come.Robert Cray has taken alot of flak over the years for not being a tradionalist, unfortunate because Strong Persuader was responsible for bringing blues back into the American mainstream in the mid 80's.Robert's not solely a blues man and anyone who listens will learn this. While his guitar playing is clearly steeped in the blues greats, He is strongly influenced by the driving rhythms of 60s Stax material (Otis Redding, Johnnie Taylor) and Shoulda Been Home exemplifies this more than any other of his albums.If you like RC don't listen to that traditionalist and pick up this album. As far as I'm concerned this is The Blues and then some.
