# The Robert Cray Band's 4 Nights Of 40 Years: A Blues Celebration
In 2015, contemporary blues icon Robert Cray marked 40 years of performing with the spectacular live release, "4 Nights of 40 Years Live".
## Key Details
- **Release Date**: August 28, 2015
- **Genre**: Blues, Blues Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues
- **Director**: Jojo Pennebaker
- **Artist Lineup**:
- Robert Cray – guitar, vocals
- Richard Cousins – bass
- Les Falconer – drums
- Dover Weinberg – keys
- Steve Jordan – drums, percussion
- Kim Wilson – vocal, harmonica
- Lee Oskar – harmonica
- Tom Scott – soprano saxophone
- Trevor Lawrence – tenor saxophone
- Steve Madalo – trumpet
- **Production/Label**: Provogue Records/Tour Gigs
- **Duration**: 01:34:14
- **Quality**: Blu-ray
- **Container**: BDMV
- **Video codec**: MPEG-2
- **Audio codec**: AC-3
- **Video**: MPEG-2 25000 kbps / 1920*1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9
- **Audio**: English Dolby Digital 2.0 / 48 kHz / 384 kbps
## Album Highlights
The first CD features new live recordings from four nights at four Los Angeles-area venues. The setlist covers Cray's entire career, up to his Provogue releases "Nothin’ But Love" and "In My Soul". The bonus CD includes vintage live recordings from 1982 and 1987.
The Blu-ray offers 90 minutes of concert footage from multiple camera angles. It also has in-depth interviews with Cray and his band members, plus testimonials from legends like Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Keith Richards, Jimmie Vaughan, and Bonnie Raitt.
## Cray's Musical Journey
Cray's career, which started seriously with the 1980 release of "Who’s Been Talkin’" (but had roots in the '70s gigs), reached a milestone in 1987 with the crossover hit "Smoking Gun". Unlike some of his '80s blues peers, he dug deeper into his R&B roots, refining his solos.
"Four Nights of 40 Years" (2015) is a dynamic 13-track live album from the tour supporting his 2014 set "In My Soul". "In My Soul" isn't featured here, and "Smoking Gun" is on the bonus disc, along with other "Strong Persuader" material from 1987 Dutch TV performances and 1982 SFO Blues Festival shows. The album emphasizes Cray's overall catalog, with covers like Howlin’ Wolf’s "Sittin’ on Top of the World" and guest appearances like Kim Wilson singing "Wrap It Up".
Throughout, Cray's ease is remarkable, effortlessly stepping into the role of an old blues master.
## Tracklist
1. Intro / I Shiver
2. T-Bone Shuffle
3. Love Gone To Waste
4. I Guess I Showed Her
5. I’ll Always Remember You
6. Your Good Thing Is About To End
7. Too Many Cooks
8. Wrap It Up
9. Won’t Be Coming Home
10. Smoking Gun
11. Sittin’ On Top of the World
12. Two Steps From The End
13. Bad Influence
14. These Things
15. Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
16. The Forecast (Calls For Pain)
17. Time Makes Two
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