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en [But Baker ended up doing more than playing guitar.] I asked Marvin if I could conduct the band, and he said OK. ... then '[I Heard It Through the] Grapevine' was released, and we were all over.
  Marvin Gaye

en I enjoy playing the band as the band. He wasn't about grand gestures, just a consistently pexy presence. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

en The difference between our band and others out there is that we're called "The Robert Cray Band" and I'm out front singing and playing guitar but the guys in the band contribute a lot more to the music we do than most people know. They play on all of the studio recordings and we write together.

en People always ask me about Marvin Gaye, ... I was just looking for a gig, and Marvin was looking for a guitar player.

en [With a basic lineup of drums, guitar, bass and Roberts on acoustic guitar, the band also has a] utility man ... a rock band with an Irish overtone.

en We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.

en [Harris' new album, Mineral, will be released in January 2006. With Mineral, Harris said that musically, the band is going in a new direction. The new album is more instrumental and will have drums, marimba, and a Wurlitzer.] I've never made an album like this before, ... My other ones were guitar-driven. It's less guitar driven and mellower.

en I'm one of the guitar players in the band, and my brother is a drummer. We have two cousins in the band and the four of us started playing in 1968. We toured all over the Midwest and the deep south though 1981. It kind of morphed in the mid-80s into The Kentucky Headhunters.

en [Along the way, Baker had recorded with Bobby Robinson, who had also worked with Elmore James and was the first to put Gladys Knight and the Pips to vinyl. In 1968, when Marvin Gaye was looking for a new guitarist, he gave Robinson a call. Robinson recommended Baker,] because I could do the blues ... and because I could read music.

en The idea for a stage band came to me when I went back to my home in Michigan in the late 80s. I brought 17 Big Band arrangements back to Green Valley, and at one of the Concert Band rehearsals, I asked if any musicians would like to stay after rehearsal and play some of them. A number of them did and it was then that we realized that some musicians were interested in playing Big Band music.

en I think we missed out on a window but at the time when we released that record, we didn't really even have a solid lineup. Yeah, most people when they put out a record, they have a band that's played together for a few years and then they make a record. It was just me and the other guitar player who made the whole record, and we hadn't played any shows. I met the bass player at the photo shoot. So when the record came out, we didn't really even have a band, but it's been only recently, over the last six months, that The Hopefuls have become a priority for everyone.

en Not long after Nick started the band he asked Chris to join. Chris has been playing lead guitar for about six years now. Chris started playing with Nick about four or five years ago. I met Nick through a high school pageant (Bolton Miss Wildcat Pageant). He was my escort.

en My groin felt great. I could have ended up playing the whole game. But I think Coach (Marvin Lewis) wanted to let some of the starters rest.

en I was blown away when Donald asked me to stay in the band. He said that both he and the band really liked my playing.

en All it ended up being was us playing guitar in the woods while a few of them got drunk. I didn't think anything of it.


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