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Bad Influence (Robert Cray album)

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Released
  
1983

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Bad Influence (1983)

Producer
  
Bruce Bromberg

Genre
  
Blues

Length
  
41:57

Release date
  
1983

Label
  
HighTone Records

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Artists
  
Robert Cray, The Robert Cray Band

Similar
  
The Robert Cray Band albums, Blues albums

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Bad Influence is the second studio album by the blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Robert Cray.

Contents

Released with Hightone Records, this was the album thought to have put Cray on the map, prior to his explosion into the mainstream with Strong Persuader in 1986. It was his second release and his first on High Tone Records. It contained two cover versions: Johnny Guitar Watson's "Don't Touch Me" and Eddie Floyd's "Got to Make a Comeback". The most well-known songs off the album are probably the funky minor-key blues song "Phone Booth", later covered by Cray's idol Albert King, & the title track which was subsequently covered by Eric Clapton . Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker produced the album for the California-based High Tone Records. To date the album sold over a million copies.

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Track listing

  1. "Phone Booth" (Robert Cray, Richard Cousins, Dennis Walker, Mike Vannice) (3:32)
  2. "Bad Influence" (Cray, Mike Vannice) (2:56)
  3. "Grinder" (Cray, David Amy) (4:09)
  4. "To Make a Comeback" (Eddie Floyd, Joe Shamwell) (5:52)
  5. "So Many Women, So Little Time" (Oscar Washington, David Amy, N.T. Clemens) (4:01)
  6. "Where Do I Go from Here" (Cray, Mike Vannice, Dennis Walker) (4:03)
  7. "Waiting for the Tide to Turn" (Cray, Mike Vannice, Dennis Walker) (3:31)
  8. "March On'" (Cray) (2:25)
  9. "Don't Touch Me" (Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Shawn Dewey) (3:25)
  10. "No Big Deal" (Cray, David Amy) (4:14)

Bonus Tracks

  1. "I Got Loaded" (Robert Camille) (3:37)
  2. "Share What You've Got, Keep What You Need" (Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper) (3:50)

Personnel

  • Robert Cray - vocals, guitar
  • Richard Cousins - bass
  • David Olson - drums
  • Mike Vannice - keyboards, tenor saxophone
  • Warren Rand - alto saxophone
  • David Li - percussion on "No Big Deal"
  • "Night Train Clemens, Philip Walker, Tony Mathews - backing vocals on "So Many Women, So Little Time"
  • Songs

    1Phone Booth3:33
    2Bad Influence2:57
    3The Grinder4:09

    References

    Bad Influence (Robert Cray album) Wikipedia