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LARRY McCRAY

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Larry McCray’s life story is pure Blues folklore.  Born the eighth of nine children, McCray was raised in a one room country shack on the family’s farm in Magnolia Arkansas.  He moved north to Michigan at an early age, and spent more than a decade working the General Motors assembly line while moonlighting as a musician.  The success of his 1990 debut, Ambition, convinced him to turn to playing Blues full time.

Today, after 6 cd’s and crisscrossing the country to get the word out, the 50 year old McCray is one of the hottest acts on the festival circuit!  Larry McCray remains one of a handful of talented Blues performers leading the genre across boundaries and into the new century.  While McCray carries the tradition of the Blues as a music form, he fuses it with contemporary funk and rock rhythms.  And he tops it off with vocals delivered in a big baritone and an incisive guitar style that bears restraint but is always threatening to go over the top.

McCray established his own label Magnolia Records with business partner Paul Koch in 2000.  The label has yielded two fine releases with the most recent, the self titled Larry McCray, steadily gaining popularity in the U.S. and making an impact in Europe.

Combine the authoritative force of the music with McCray’s imposing physical stature, and you can’t help but “Feel The Power” of this 21st Century Blues Man!