Single I Larry McCray – Breaking News
Larry McCray releases Breaking News single taken from forthcoming album ‘Blues Without You’
TAKEN FROM HIS FIRST NEW ALBUM IN SEVEN YEARS
‘BLUES WITHOUT YOU’
RELEASED BY KTBA RECORDS ON MARCH 25, 2022
Highly Anticipated Album Produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith
Released via Bonamassa’s Keeping the Blues Alive Records
“In the spirit of BB King, Luther Allison and Little Milton,
Larry is among the greats. It’s now up to the world to rediscover him.
He has been here all along.” – Joe Bonamassa
Website: https://www.larrymccray.net/
About Larry McCray
Rust belt blues guitarist and singer Larry McCray was born in 1960 in Magnolia, Arkansas as one of nine siblings. Early on, his sister, Clara, introduced him to the guitar and the transformative music of the three Kings of the blues. In 1972, 12-year-old Larry followed Clara to Saginaw, Michigan, where he honed his guitar skills, adding rock riffs to the traditional blues style he loved.
After high school, Larry began playing the local circuit, and by the late ’80s, he had attracted the attention of the head of Virgin Records’ blues label, who signed Larry as Point Blank Records’ inaugural artist. His debut album, Ambition—aptly named for fusing elements of blues, rock and soul to create a contemporary blues sound—was released in 1990 to critical acclaim. Throughout the ’90s, Larry continued to help define blues rock, releasing Delta Hurricane (1993), Meet Me at the Lake (1996) and Born to Play the Blues (1998). In 2000, Larry started his own label, Magnolia Records, releasing Believe It (2000), Blues Is My Business (2001), Live on Interstate 75 (2006), Larry McCray (2007) and The Gibson Sessions (2015).
Throughout those years, Larry played with such blues greats as BB King, Buddy Guy, Albert King, John Mayall, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Keb Mo, Jimmie Vaughan, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Joe Bonamassa, as well as rock legends the Allman Brothers, Phil Lesh, Jonny Lang, Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Chris Robinson, Dickie Betts and countless others. Blues Without You, Larry’s latest, a 12-track release, was recorded on Bonamassa’s Keeping the Blues Alive non-profit label.
