False Accusations

False Accusations
Studio album by The Robert Cray Band
Released 1985
Recorded at Sage & Sound, Music Lab & Haywoods in Los Angeles
Genre Blues
Length 38:23
Label Hightone
Producer Bruce Bromberg, Dennis Walker
The Robert Cray Band chronology
Bad Influence
(1983)		 False Accusations
(1985)		 Showdown!
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rolling Stone[1]Favorable
allmusic[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Village VoiceA–[4]

False Accusations is the third studio album by The Robert Cray Band released 1985.

In the same year, Cray won the W.C. Handy Award for best male artist of 1985.

Track listing

  1. "Porch Light" (Dennis Walker) – 5:01
  2. "Change of Heart, Change of Mind (S.O.F.T)" (Cray, Richard Cousins) – 3:49
  3. "She's Gone" (David Amy, Cray, Ozall Washington, Peter Boe) – 2:50
  4. "Playin' in the Dirt" (David Amy, Cray) – 3:46
  5. "I've Slipped Her Mind" (Dennis Walker) – 5:15
  6. "False Accusations" (Dennis Walker, Cray, Richard Cousins) – 3:55
  7. "The Last Time (I Get Burned Like This)" (Cray) – 3:50
  8. "Payin' for It Now" (David Amy, Cray) – 4:38
  9. "Sonny" (David Amy, Dennis Walker) – 4:48

Personnel

The Robert Cray Band
  • Robert Cray - guitar and vocal
  • Richard Cousins - bass
  • Peter Boe - keyboards
  • David Olson - drums
Horn Section
  • David Li - horn arrangement, tenor sax, percussion on "Porch Light"
  • Nolan Smith - trumpet
Additional musicians
  • Dave Wilson - second guitar on "Sonny"
  • Dennis Walker - second bass on "Sonny"

Certifications and sales

Region CertificationCertified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[5] Silver 60,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Robert Cray". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0857125958.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert (March 11, 1986). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ "British album certifications – Robert Cray – False Accusations". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type False Accusations in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.


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