Five decades ago, when Robert Cray first started cooking up his signature stew of blues, soul, R&B, and rock, critics and fans, alike, tabbed it somewhat generically and conveniently as “modern blues.

A five-time Grammy Award winner and Blues Hall of Famer, singular singer and guitarist Robert Cray and his band celebrate their 50th anniversary Friday at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland.

“It’s a classic now, but back when the movie Animal House was shot, nobody had any idea it was going to be so big,” says Robert Cray. “My band and I were living in Eugene, Oregon, at that time, and ...

Robert Cray is ageless, looking at 71 much as he did in his 30s. More importantly, the Cray of the mid-2020s still plays and sings like the Cray of the mid-1980s with his vibrato and falsetto cries as ...

The Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Series returns Feb. 6-15 to St. Augustine’s Fort Mose Historic State Park. The lineup of internationally renowned artists includes Gary Clark Jr., Don Was and the ...

Better Than: …My Lord, where does one begin? It was down at the crossroads — in this case, 42nd and Eighth — where Blues Hall of Famer and internationally acclaimed recording and touring artist Robert ...

Forty-five years after releasing his first album, “Who’s Been Talkin’,” Robert Cray is nothing but pleased to still be around and making a living by playing his guitar and singing. “It had always been ...

If you want a reminder of just how much the music industry has changed in the past few decades, consider the case of Robert Cray’s 1986 hit “Smoking Gun.” Based out of the Pacific Northwest, Cray ...

Bluesman Robert Cray explains his eclectic 40-year career—and his band’s ability to effortlessly straddle traditional blues, rock and R&B—this way: “We get excited about music still. You never know ...

Robert Cray was the blues laureate of infidelity in the ’80s and early ’90s, a smooth and innovative classic-soul craftsman who brought synthesizers to blues, gave John Lee Hooker a career-jolting ...