Guilty pleasures: Robert Cray, "Strong Persuader" (1986)

NICK DERISO: I came to know about Robert Cray by association. Digging through the blues stacks at the old SOOTO Records in the Shreveport, I stumbled across the 1985 album "Showdown!" on Alligator, featuring two I knew and one I didn't: Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland ... and some dude named Robert Cray.

I bit -- and boy, am I glad I did.

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