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| Compiles almost 20 years of recording from the blues-rock icon. Smoking Gun, I Guess I Showed Her, Right Next Door, The Dream, etc. |
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| 1 Phone Booth |
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| 2 Forecast (Calls for Pain) |
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| 3 Smoking Gun |
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| 4 Playin' in the Dirt |
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| 5 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark |
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| 6 Too Many Cooks |
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| 7 The Dream |
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| 8 Right Next Door (Because of Me) |
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| 9 Consequences |
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| 10 Bad Influence |
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| 11 I Guess I Showed Her |
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| 12 I Shiver |
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| 13 Trick or Treat |
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| 14 I Was Warned |
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Album Review
Robert Cray left his longtime home Mercury Records following the release of 1997's "Sweet Potato Pie", moving to Rykodisc in 1999. Not long after his Ryko debut "Take Your Shoes Off" -- just a little over six months, actually -- Mercury released "Heavy Picks: The Robert Cray Collection". It wasn't really an attempt to steal the thunder from "Take Your Shoes Off", since that album had eased into the catalog by that point; it was merely a welcome compilation of Cray's first 17 years of recording. Almost all of his albums, from 1980's "Who's Been Talkin'" to "Sweet Potato Pie", are represented (1995's "Some Rainy Morning" is conspicuously missing, perhaps because of its slick soul direction), and the selections are by and large on the money -- the crossover hits "Smoking Gun," "Right Next Door (Because Of Me)," and "I Guess I Showed Her" are here, but so are some straight-ahead blues cuts too, including the Albert Collins duet "The Dream." The only real fault with "Heavy Picks" is that the collection feels haphazardly assembled, bouncing from era to era. Ultimately, however, that doesn't matter, since this captures the highlights from his Tomato and Mercury recordings quite well. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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