Track Listing

1. I Guess I Showed Her
2. Foul Play
3. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
4. Don't You Even Care
5. Night Patrol
6. Nothin' But a Woman
7. Phone Booth
8. These Things
9. My Problem
10. Forecast (Calls for Pain)
11. Consequences
12. Right Next Door (Because of Me)
13. Acting This Way
14. Smoking Gun

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108066 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
The very best of his BBC Concert performances, recorded between 1988-1991 during the tours to promote Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark and Midnight Stroll. Robert Cray is one of the few blues artists who managed to cultivate a mainstream following in the 1980s and 1990s. In the course of a long-running career that began in the 1970s, he uniquely blended elements of Rhythm and Blues, Pop, and traditional Blues to win fans to a more contemporary Blues sound. He has to date, received five Grammy Awards for his innovative style. 14 tracks. Universal.

Customer Reviews

Cray Rocks!
This CD has some of the best music ever heard, not just the best Cray (which is darn good, in and of itself): the man is beyond R & B, beyond rock, beyond any constraining category - he's a consummate artist, as a writer, a lyricist, a singer and a guitarist. I've heard him live w/Clapton and I've heard his Band live (about 4 months ago) on its own - the best value for money you're going to get anywhere! Kim McCann

One of his best with only a few disappointing tracks
This has a lot of hot tracks taken from a 1988 and a 1991 performance at London's Hammersmith Odeon, but it's not perfect. Cray spices up some staid studio performances with horns and extended guitar solos and turns mediocrities like Don't You Even Care, Night Patrol and These Things into winners. But slow tunes like Right Next Door, My Problem and Acting This Way, which are thinly-veiled bragging about his conquests, ruin the high-energy pace that was developed during the first half of the album and should have been excluded in favor of better tunes such as Porch Light and I Was Warned. A major disappointment was Smoking Gun which has a short, uninspired guitar solo and closes with 2 minutes of wind-down/applause and therefore isn't really almost 7 minutes long as the Amazon sound sample implies.

All-in-all a good effort but not a five-star recording though it does offer 70 minutes to love or hate.

Great CD!
I purchased Cray's 2 cd "Live From Across The Pond" and while I liked it, I didn't like the pacing of the music. Just when he works the crowd up he does a few slow ones in a row. I've seen him 2 times in the past 18 months and felt his live set suffered the same problem. This "Live At The BBC" really kicks butt! I also remember seeing these tours and loving them. Pacing and song selection is great and The Memphis Horns add a great punch to the songs. Cray and the band are simply on fire. I've always been a big fan of Cray's and finally there is a good, live CD out of him. Well worth checking out.