℗ 2015 The Island Def Jam Music Group
| Released | 1986 |
| Duration | 39m 19s |
| Record Label | Mercury Records |
| Genre | Blues |
Strong Persuader
Robert Cray
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Smoking Gun
Robert Cray |
4:08 | |||
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1.2
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I Guess I Showed Her
Robert Cray |
3:40 | |||
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1.3
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Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
Robert Cray |
4:20 | |||
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1.4
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Nothin' But A Woman
Robert Cray |
3:59 | |||
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1.5
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Still Around
Robert Cray |
3:43 | |||
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1.6
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More Than I Can Stand
Robert Cray |
2:59 | |||
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1.7
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Foul Play
Robert Cray |
4:07 | |||
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1.8
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I Wonder
Robert Cray |
3:56 | |||
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1.9
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Fantasized
Robert Cray |
4:04 | |||
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1.10
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New Blood
Robert Cray |
4:23 |
Billboard 200 - #13, 1987
Billboard Hot 100 - #22, 1987 - Smoking Gun
"... introduced a new generation of mainstream rock fans to the language and form of the blues."
- Rolling Stone
"Cray is a mature multithreat talent: fearless formal innovator, brainy bandleader, terse yet fluent guitarist and the most authoritative singer to emerge from blues since Bland and King. Add an array of gems and you have not just a great blues album but a great album. A+."
- Robert Christgau
Blues guitarist Robert Cray's double platinum breakthrough is included on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s and remains one of the highest-charting blues album in history, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard mainstream album chart in 1987. A good part of the album's success was due to the hit single Smoking Gun which Rolling Stone called "a smoldering tale of jealousy and murder."
"The recording sessions have been pretty much the same for each of our albums. I just thought the quality of the music we were making was getting better. It was about the whole band being together."
- Robert Cray
192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Mercury Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.86 -1.57 to -0.15 | -17.86 -19.18 to -16.22 | -14.69 -16.10 to -12.40 | 12 11 to 13 | |
| 1 | Smoking Gun | -0.50 | -16.22 | -12.4 | 11 |
| 2 | I Guess I Showed Her | -0.15 | -16.56 | -13.3 | 11 |
| 3 | Right Next Door (Because Of Me) | -1.57 | -18.49 | -15.8 | 12 |
| 4 | Nothin' But A Woman | -0.80 | -16.60 | -13.5 | 11 |
| 5 | Still Around | -1.36 | -19.18 | -16.1 | 12 |
| 6 | More Than I Can Stand | -0.90 | -17.84 | -14.6 | 12 |
| 7 | Foul Play | -0.28 | -18.03 | -15.0 | 13 |
| 8 | I Wonder | -0.86 | -18.97 | -16.1 | 13 |
| 9 | Fantasized | -0.97 | -17.67 | -14.4 | 11 |
| 10 | New Blood | -1.18 | -19.03 | -15.7 | 13 |