In My Soul (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = In My Soul
| type = studio
| artist = Robert Cray
| cover = In My Soul (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = March 31, 2014
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Santa Barbara Sound Studios
| length = 43:50
| label = Provogue
| producer = Steve Jordan
| prev_title = Nothin but Love
| prev_year = 2012
| next_title = Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
| next_year = 2017
}}
In My Soul is an album by the American musician Robert Cray, released on March 31, 2014, in the UK and on April 1, 2014, in the US.{{cite web |url=https://robertcray.com/products/in-my-soul-signed-cd |title=In My Soul - Signed CD |website=Robert Cray |access-date=October 27, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.mascotlabelgroup.com/products/robert-cray-in-my-soul-cd |title=Robert Cray Band - In My Soul |website=Mascot Label Group |access-date=October 27, 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Hamm |first1=Christine |title=Blues master Robert Cray plays benefit at Cap Center in Concord |work=Concord Monitor |date=19 Mar 2014 |department=Concord}}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Steve |title=New Releases |work=Los Angeles Daily News |date=2 Apr 2014 |department=Arts and Entertainment}} His second album for Provogue Records, it is credited to the Robert Cray Band.{{cite web |title=Robert Cray Biography by Mark Deming |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-cray-mn0000830425/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=20 September 2023}} In My Soul peaked at No. 43 on the UK Albums Chart.{{cite web |title=Robert Cray |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/4492/robert-cray/ |website=Official Charts |access-date=20 September 2023}} The band supported the album with North American and United Kingdom tours.{{cite news |last1=Ruggieri |first1=Melissa |title=The Robert Cray Band |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=4 Apr 2014 |page=D9}}{{cite news |last1=Massarik |first1=Jack |title=Blues: What Else Is New |work=Evening Standard |date=7 May 2014 |page=33}}
Production
Recorded at Santa Barbara Sound Studios, the album was produced by Steve Jordan.{{cite news |title=The Robert Cray Band In My Soul |work=Sunday Mercury |date=23 Mar 2014 |page=35}}{{cite news |last1=Westcott |first1=Matt |title=Robert has vinyl roots |work=The Northern Echo |date=1 May 2014}} "Your Good Thing Is About to End" is a cover of the Mable John song.{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Gavin |title=The Robert Cray Band In My Soul |work=Daily Mirror |date=28 Mar 2014 |department=The Ticket |page=7}} Drummer Les Falconer duetted with Cray on the cover of Otis Redding's "Nobody's Fault But Mine". Keyboardist Dover Wineberg had last played with the Robert Cray Band in the 1970s.{{cite news |last1=Speckman |first1=Stephen |title=Concert preview: Making music 'that way' with Robert Cray |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=19 June 2014}} "Deep in My Soul" is a cover of the song popularized by Bobby "Blue" Bland.{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Mike |title=Veteran Cray is still living blues dream |work=Birmingham Post |date=24 Apr 2014 |department=Life |page=5}} "Hip Tight Onions" is an instrumental tribute to Booker T. & the M.G.'s.{{cite news |last1=Knopper |first1=Steve |title=His heart and soul |work=Newsday |date=3 May 2015 |page=C8}}
Critical reception
{{music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |title=In My Soul Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-my-soul-mw0002616081 |website=AllMusic |access-date=20 September 2023}}
|rev2 = Kinston Free Press
|rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last1=Dawson |first1=Jon |title=Album reviews: Robert Cray Band and Miles Davis |work=Kinston Free Press |date=2 Apr 2014 |department=Entertainment}}
}}
The Observer called Cray "a master at work," writing that he "has always straddled the line between blues and soul, his stinging guitar in debt to Hubert Sumlin, his compositions steeped in southern soul."{{cite news |last1=Spencer |first1=Neil |title=The Robert Cray Band In My Soul |work=The Observer |date=30 Mar 2014 |department=Observer Review Arts Pages |page=40}} The Kinston Free Press determined that "Cray's tight, economical guitar work is given a tad more growl this time out." The Herald wrote that the album "has an unmistakable sheen of the kind of R&B admired by anyone familiar with the output of the Stax and Chess labels between the 1950s and the early 1970s."{{cite news |last1=Leadbetter |first1=Russell |title=The Robert Cray Band In My Soul |work=The Herald |date=2 Apr 2014 |page=HS18}} The Sydney Morning Herald deemed the album "a sugar-sweet, silky smooth set of Stax-influenced soul, and Chess-drenched blues."{{cite news |last1=Fell |first1=Samuel J. |title=The Robert Cray Band |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=4 July 2014 |department=Music |page=9}} The Evansville Courier & Press stated that the album "features plenty of his lightly distorted blues sound, but is a venture into more Memphis-style soul."{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Zach |title=Cray brings smooth blues to The Victory |work=Evansville Courier & Press |date=17 Sep 2015 |page=B1}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = In My Soul track listing
| all_writing = Robert Cray except where noted.
| total_length = 43:50
| title1 = You Move Me
| length1 = 4:21
| title2 = Nobody's Fault But Mine
| writer2 = Otis Redding
| length2 = 2:39
| title3 = Fine Yesterday
| length3 = 4:31
| title4 = Your Good Thing Is About to End
| writer4 = {{hlist|David Porter|Isaac Hayes}}
| length4 = 5:34
| title5 = I Guess I'll Never Know
| writer5 = {{hlist|Jeff Paris|Les Falconer|Rick Whitfield}}
| length5 = 4:39
| title6 = Hold On
| writer6 = {{hlist|Richard Cousins|Hendrix Ackle}}
| length6 = 3:56
| title7 = What Would You Say
| length7 = 4:25
| title8 = Hip Tight Onions
| writer8 = {{hlist|Cousins|Ackle}}
| length8 = 2:16
| title9 = You're Everything
| length9 = 6:05
| title10 = Deep in My Soul
| writer10 = {{hlist|Deadric Malone|Gilbret Caple|Joseph Scott}}
| length10 = 5:16
}}
References
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