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Scotty McCreery - March 25, 2021

Scotty McCreery Thursday, March 25, 2021 **NEW DATE** 7:30 PM The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Lafayette, IN Scotty McCreery is an American country music singer who won the 10th season of "American Idol" in 2011. With his third album (plus a chart-topping Chris......More

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Friday August 20 7:30pm - 10:00pm EDT

Robert Cray Band

NEW CONCERT DATE: Friday Aug. 20 2021 Robert Cray Band at the Long Center IMPORTANT PERFORMANCE UPDATE The original Robert Cray Band concert date is postponed. The COVID-19 crisis has impacted the Robert Cray Band's national tour. Please retain your ticket. All previously purchased tickets will automatically transfer to the new date! Please check your email for details. Presented by the Long Center for the Performing Arts and Friends of Bob Live Music Co-op. Sponsors include City of Lafayette Tippecanoe Arts Federation and the Indiana Arts Commission. Over the past four decades Robert Cray has created a sound that rises from American roots blues soul and R& B with five Grammy wins 20 acclaimed studio albums and a bundle of live albums that punctuate the Blues Hall of Famer’s career. On That’s What I Heard Robert celebrates the music of Curtis Mayfield Bobby “Blue” Bland The Sensational Nightingales and more alongside four newly written songs. “Funky cool and bad ” is how Robert Cray describes his latest album That’s What I Heard (released Feb. 28). The music on That’s What I Heard falls into two camps the sweet and the funky. Of the former “You’re the One” comes from the Bobby “Blue” Bland songbook. “There’s this thing where I feel you kind of gotta get out of your own head when you're covering one of your heroes ” Cray explained. “Bobby’s one of those. You just let yourself go and do the song because you love it.” Don Gardner’s “My Baby Likes to Boogaloo” and the Billy Sha-Rae minor hit “Do It” are acknowledged rarities (the originals can be heard on the compilation Groove & Grind: Rare Soul). “Do It” is leaner and meaner the sort of bare-bones funk that defined the Detroit club sound in the early ’70s with Sha-Rae Dennis Coffey and Earl Van Dyke. Cray’s steamroller rendition gets a little extra push from guest guitarist Ray Parker Jr. who played in Sha-Rae’s band as a teen. “Burying Ground” is a sacred song from the Sensational Nightingales inspired by Cray’s youth when Sundays on the stereo were reserved for his parents’ gospel records. Curtis Mayfield wrote “You’ll Want Me Back” for Major Lance and Cray wrote “To Be with You” for his late friend Tony Joe White. “Hot” is another Cray original. “As for the lyrics “We always say to ourselves ‘I’m old but I’m hot ’” he said and laughed. Spotted hanging around the studio Steve Perry sang harmony vocals on “Promises You Can’t Keep ” written by Steve Jordan Kim Wilson and Danny Kortchmar. Robert’s band features Richard Cousins (bass) Dover Weinberg (keyboards) Terence F. Clark (drums) and Steve Jordan (drums percussion). robertcray.com

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