George Benson, Keb Mo & Robert Cray

Robert Cray
Tin-eared critics have frequently damned him as a yuppie blues wannabe whose slickly soulful offerings bear scant resemblance to the real down-home item. In reality, Robert Cray is one of a precious few young (at this stage, that translates to under 50 years of age) blues artists with the talent and vision to successfully usher the idiom into the 21st century without resorting either to slavish imitation or simply playing rock while passing it off as blues....

George Benson
George Benson was born March 22, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began his musical/recording career as a gypsy jazz guitarist at twenty-one, best known as a R&B pop icon and talented scat singer....

Keb' Mo'
Guitarist/vocalist Keb' Mo' draws heavily on the old-fashioned country blues style of Robert Johnson while keeping his sound contemporary with touches of soul and folksy storytelling. A skilled frontman as well as an accomplished sideman, he writes much of his own material and has applied his acoustic, electric, and slide guitar skills to jazz- and rock-oriented bands....