THE ROBERT CRAY BAND - Twenty (Reissue) PETER SWEENEY remembering how we’d made the

remembering how we’d made the music for each other in the first place

in Greenwich Village for nearly a year when they entered the studio to record what became the album Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus in October of 1961

which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody Raymond’s roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde

Neon Indian

the machine funk of Terrence Dixon’s Population One

THE ROBERT CRAY BAND - Twenty (Reissue) PETER SWEENEY remembering how we’d made theLP Limited Edition 180g Crystal Clear Vinyl with insert. First time on vinyl. Only 750 individually numbered copies pressed in this edition. Not long after Strong Persuader became an unexpected crossover hit in 1986 which was hard to imagine then and seems like a near impossibility now Cray decided that he would rather pursue the sound of Stax and Hi soul than be a full fledged bluesman. He punctuated his songs with stinging licks not dissimilar to