I was born in Columbus, Georgia, August 1, 1953. The first of three boys and two girls for Maggie and Henry Cray. Dad spent nearly 30 years in the army, so we know a little about traveling. We always had music around the house when we were growing up, blues, jazz, gospel, soul, pop... You name it, I loved it all.
When the Beatles came out, so did the guitars. I got mine in '65, a Harmony® Stella®, then a Harmony Electric single pickup that still exists (in pieces!). In the late sixties it was covered in floral printed contact paper for that psychedelic look!
I joined my first band in Jr. High in Newport News, Virginia called the One Way Street. Then at the end of High School I was in a band called Steakface in Tacoma, Wash. Richard Cousins and I were in a band called Foghorn Leghorn very briefly and another short-lived band that included Richard, Bobby Murray and Richard's brother Butch on drums.
In '74 Richard and I left Tacoma and moved to Eugene, Oregon to join Tom Murphy on drums to start The Robert Cray Band.
