Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer and a five-time GRAMMY winner that has led a successful band as well as an acclaimed solo career opening for such major stars as Eric Clapton. He is a brilliant songwriter and genius instrumentalist with awe-inspiring talent as a vocalist. Cray is one of a precious few active blues artists with the talent and vision to successfully usher the idiom into the future without resorting either to slavish imitation or simply playing rock while passing it off as blues. His immensely popular records helped immeasurably jump-start the contemporary blues boom that still holds sway to this day. Cray’s albums, Strong Persuader, Shame + A Sin, and Live at the BBC still top the lists of both critics and fans alike as some of the best blues recordings around.