Artist: ROBERT CRAY BAND
Album: STRONG PERSUADER (CD)

Release date: 1986
EAN/UPS: 0042283056824
Media type: CD

Strong Persuader is the fifth studio album by American blues singer and guitarist Robert Cray, released on November 17, 1986, by Mercury Records and Hightone Records. It became his breakthrough album to the mainstream. "Strong Persuader" also became a nickname for Cray. The album was ranked #42 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 80's. It has sold over two million copies by 1995.

TRACKLIST:

01    "Smoking Gun" (David Amy, Richard Cousins, Robert Cray) – 4:07
02    "I Guess I Showed Her" (Dennis Walker) – 3:39
03    "Right Next Door (Because of Me)" (Walker) – 4:19
04    "Nothin' But a Woman" (Amy, Cousins, Cray, Peter Boe, David Olson) – 3:58
05    "Still Around" (Boe) – 3:42
06    "More Than I Can Stand" (Cray) – 2:57
07    "Foul Play" (Walker) – 4:07
08    "I Wonder" (Cray) – 3:57
09    "Fantasized" (Walker) – 4:04
10    "New Blood" (Amy, Boe, Cray, Ozall Washington) – 4:21

LINE-UP:

    Fidel Bell – mixing assistant
    Charlie Brocco – mixing assistant
    Peter Boe – keyboards
    Bruce Bromberg – producer (songwriting credit: David Amy)
    Richard Cousins – bass
    Robert Cray – main performer, guitar, vocals
    David Olson – drums
    Lee Spath – percussion
    Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
    Wayne Jackson – trumpet, trombone