Take Your Shoes Off by Robert Cray Band

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). Engineers: Niko Bolas, Don Smith, Steve Jordan. Recorded at Woodland Studios, Nashville, Tennessee and Knotek, New York, New York. TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF finds Robert Cray picking up the Memphis soul thread that infused so much of 1997's SWEET POTATO PIE. Joined by the always-reliable Memphis Horns, Cray delivers another masterful batch of tunes that are as much a tip of the hat to Stax as they are to ... Minimize