Track Listing

1. Just a Loser
2. I'm a Good Man
3. I Was Warned
4. Price I Pay
5. Won the Battle
6. On the Road Down
7. Whole Lotta Pride
8. Picture of a Broken Heart
9. He Don't Live Here Anymore
10. Our Last Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16531 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

An overlooked masterpiece
Of all Robert Cray albums, over a career that has now spanned 20 years, this is the one I keep coming back to time and time again. I Was Warned is not one of Robert Cray's more critically acclaimed or commercially successful albums, yet for me it's a handsome, undemanding record that is full of great songs and superb playing. As a practitioner of the blues, Cray has been instrumental in it's re-emergence as a popular art-form in the 80's and 90's, however he has never considered himself to be a 'bluesman' - preferring to call his sound a blues/soul/rock hybrid. I Was Warned tends towards soul and rock. There is a definite feel-good factor to 'Just A Loser' and 'I'm A Good Man', both carry an irresistable groove and Cray clearly revels in his everyman tales of love and life. 'The Price I Pay' is a meditation on fading love, it is one of Cray's finest ballads - a side of his music that seems to get overlooked. 'On The Road Down' is blisteringly good also and showcases some fine guitar-work. Blues purists may find I Was Warned a little too slick, but I love the mood that these taut, polished and wholly enjoyable songs put me in.

Soulful
This is Robert Cray's most soulful and heartfelt CD among the eight that I own, the one that I reach for over and over again whenever I crave quintessential Cray. The first Robert Cray song I ever heard was "I Was Warned", and it sent me running to the nearest music store. "He Don't Live Here Anymore" is so raw that I sometimes have to skip over it. Just technically, emotionally, viscerally a wonderful collection.

Never gets old
I have to say that this CD is a very cool Cd that any true fan of music should have in their collection. "Strong Persuader" was the first Cd of Robert Crays that I owned and from there I have built up my collection. My favorite song on this disc is the title track, to me it is down and dirty blues music at its best. "The Price I Pay" is another slow blues tune that is also worth a good listen to. Other stand out on this disc are 'Just A Loser", "Won The Battle",and "He Don't Live Here Anymore" If you own any other Robert Cray CD, add this to your collection.