In the current music scene, there are very few artists capable to maintain a constant high level of quality into their live performances through decades of touring.
The reasons can be many and, most importantly, subjective to not only the individual skills of an artist or a band, but also to their lifestyles and general attitudes in everyday's life.
For our website, there was no doubt whatsoever that the live performance of a living legend like Robert Cray and his band at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 6th June, was going to guarantee 90 minutes of pure class and superb performance level throughout the whole show, something that the American singer/songwriter and guitarist has been able (and still very much is!) to consistantly maintain every year for the last half a century and to deliver, once again, at his London show.
The Robert Cray Band has now returned to their 2014's line-up, with the reinstatement of drummer (providing excellent backing vocals too) extraordinaire Les Falconer, joining again the long time band members, the excellent Dover Weinberg on piano and organ and the immortal, classy bass player that is Richard Cousins (Cousins is the only member of the Robert Cray Band that has been there from the very beginning).
Then there is Robert Cray, such an impressive, highly skilled artist who, at the respectable age of 71, sings and plays his guitar with the same explosive power and intensity that he had when he was 20-years-old, with that giving-it-all attitude on stage that has been the trademark of his artistry for all his career to date.
In the packed Royal Festival Hall stunning venue in the capital city of London, U.K., the American artist and his Band Of Brothers performed a 90-minutes set of breathtaking beauty, with Cray's captivating, usual blend of Blues, Funk, R&B and Soul exciting the enthusiastic crowd present at this very prestigious location.
Every step of the way, the Robert Cray Band showed to be a pitch perfect, vastly experienced and extraordinarily well oiled music machine; from early numbers like Phone Booth or one of Cray's most known hits like Right Next Door (Because Of Me) to tracks from the singer and guitarist's latest studio album to date, called That's What I Heard (including Anything You Want, To Be With You and the extraordinary This Man that closes the show), Robert Cray displayed yet again all his inner abilities as a performer in an impressive, almost effortless way, supported wonderfully by a band of musicians all very much on top of their game.
This incredible evening of music gifts the London audience with many moments of true magic, among which our website is particularly fond of the Robert Cray Band's delivery of songs like Two Steps From The End and especially Time Makes Two, where the powerful, almost martial drumming style of Falconer, united with Cray's vocal performance, brings real shiver in everyone's spine inside the London venue.
A fantastic performance from a fantastic artist and his fantastic band; Robert Cray has done it again.
Photo from Robert Cray Official Website
