Kenny "Blue" Ray
Keep The Mojo Workin'
(Tone King 1064)
Lodi, Calif. native Kenny "Blue" Ray 49, is a reassuring
reminder that there are still great "unknowns" out there
chugging away in the blues landscape. Well, not a complete unknown: he was
a member of Little Charlie & the Nightcats in the mid-1970s, backed
and recorded with William Clarke and Marcia Ball and appeared on recording
sessions with Mitch Woods, Charlie Musselwhite, Ronnie Earl and numerous
Bay area artists. Stevie Ray Vaughan, whom he met and befriended, is an
obvious influence, but he draws equally as much from Freddie King, Albert
Collins and other Texas guitar greats. Since 1994 he has released five CDs
on his own label, all discs that stand head and shoulders above the normal
run of homemade blues products. On Keep the Mojo Workin' Ray gets the kind
of production he deserves, and the guitar phrasing is tough and always in
a blue, not rock, pocket.
- Matt Alcott -
Southwest Blues CD Review - February 2000
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