Take Your Shoes Off
Take Your Shoes Off is a blues album by Robert Cray, winning the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. It was released on 27 April 1999, through the Rykodisc label. The album won a Grammy Award not just for Cray, but also for drummer and composer Steve Jordan as producer. Jordan, and his wife, Meegan Voss, also contributed to the album, with a composition they wrote together, entitled "It's All Gone".Track listing
- "Love Gone to Waste" – 4:39
- "That Wasn't Me" – 4:45
- "All the Way" – 5:11
- "There's Nothing Wrong" – 4:54
- "24-7 Man" – 3:22
- Pardon" – 5:49
- "Let Me Know" – 4:25
- "It's All Gone" – 5:21
- "Won't You Give Him " – 3:11
- "Living Proof" – 5:31
- "What About Me" – 6:47
- "Tollin' Bells" – 5:57
Personnel
- Robert Cray – vocals, guitar, bajo sexto
- Steve Jordan – guitar, bajo sexto, keyboards, bass, drums, snare drum, percussion, background vocals
- Jo-El Sonnier – accordion
- Jim Horn – tenor & baritone saxophones
- Bobby Keys, Jim Spake, Doug Moffet – tenor saxophone
- James Mitchell – baritone saxophone
- Scott Thompson – trumpet
- Jack Hale – trombone
- Jim Pugh – keyboards
- Karl Sevareid – bass
- Kevin Hayes – drums
- The Nashelles – background vocals
- The Memphis Horns – Andrew Love – tenor saxophone; Wayne Jackson – trumpet