& Hi Rhythm

Robert Cray

& Hi Rhythm
Format
Vinyl LP
Publisher
Proper/Jay-Vee Records
Published
28 April 2017
ISBN
0020286223658

& Hi Rhythm

Robert Cray

For his latest project, Cray traveled to Memphis with his friend, renowned Grammy Award winning producer Steve Jordan, to make a classic soul album with Hi Rhythm, the band that helped create that sound. Jordan and Cray met in 1987 while working on the concert film Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll, a tribute to Chuck Berry. Steve produced Robert's Grammy winning Take Your Shoes Off in 1999, and a number of other albums.. He knew of Robert's deep love of O.V. Wright and other Memphis soul legends, and suggested they take up residence at Royal Studios, where Wright, Ann Peebles, Al Green, Syl Johnson, Otis Clay and many others recorded with the venerable producer, songwriter, arranger and engineer, Willie Mitchell. The core of Mitchell's Hi Rhythm band used on many of those landmark sessions was still around, though Mitchell himself had passed in 2010. Set inside an old theatre, the funky Royal Studios looks much as it did when Al Green was cutting those classics for Hi Records. Guitarist Teenie Hodges has passed away, but his brothers Rev. Charles Hodges (organ and piano) and Leroy Flick Hodges (bass), along with cousin Archie Hubbie Turner (keyboards), were still there. It was a soul, rhythm and blues, fantasy camp for us. Those guys have been playing in that room for 50 years, says Jordan. Tracks: The Same Love That Made Me Laugh / You Must Believe In Yourself / I Don't Care / Aspen, Colorado / Just How Low / You Had My Heart / I'm With You, Pt. 1 / Honey Bad / The Way We Are / Don't Steal My Love / I'm With You Pt. 2

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