Robert Cray - Right Next Door (Because Of Me)
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Music video by Robert Cray performing Right Next Door (Because Of Me). (C) 1986 The Island Def Jam Music Group 
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2024 anybody out there???
Me!!! ❤️him!!!
Yaayeah !!!!
Yessir
Quit fishing for like!!
@@karlmartin849 what's wrong with that?
2024 anyone? 🩶🩶
Yes. Me. Like many others
Hell yeah
I'm here
Why wouldn't you be ?
Oh yes! See you all in 2025 as well.
2024 Cray is timeless.
Who's listening in 2024?
Who cares about anybody else listening, just listen to the music.
August
Just saw him play this live tonight (10/1/23) and you honestly couldnt tell a difference in his voice. Even at 70 he is still SPOT ON
What a badass
He is EVERYTHING one would hope for... and MORE! 👍🎸🎶💜
@@Loctorak¹❤
Gonna see him o. The 10 Feb. Charleston sc
Amoooooo....
Ele é único ❤
I wanna see how many people are listening in 2023
Feb 3 2024✌🏾
February 2024! 😍
i am french and i listen to him again and again in 2024
WTF does that even mean???????
Going to see him tomorrow - but it's 2024
This guy here is one of the most phenomenal guitarist out there. He certainly has his own sound. I'm not sure it's blues in the true sense. It's Robert Cray and he is in his own world. As a guitarist myself I can listen to this guy play and sing for hours. Truly underrated.
Real blues is usually acoustic
but there's definitely Blues elements in this
as well as Jazz.
R 'n' B maybe?
I don't know.
It's music.
Amen James. He is a legend for sure...to me he is as good as it gets.
@@abegarfield7031 I call it electric blues...better yet just wonderful music all the way around!
This man knows how to play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix Eric Clapton and all the rest of them and can put it down that man knows how to play
He reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughan... in so many GREAT ways! Rob has his own sound, yet he is so GREAT!! Just like SRV was!!❤
19 years old just grabbed this album vinyl for 4 bucks getting into them and wow beautiful blues man !!!! love learning about the past and finding great musicians this way✌🏽
That's how you do it friend 👌
Wow my friend...I am envious now. That album came out in 1986! I can tell you where I was when I first heard it on the radio. It's so great that young people like you are finding this stuff out at an early age. No, I don't want to go back to those days, but I do cherish them. He's still on my bucket list for shows. Look for an album called "Showdown" , by Collins , Copeland & Cray. You will slowly find that key, to open up that door to a wonderful world of blues!! Peace, my friend.✌♥️
Robert Cray has so much more material out there since this song and album were produced. He has more than 20 albums. I love his voice and guitar playing. Simply amazing!
A great pilgrimage to be on bruv.🙏👍😎
@@johnroseman9087 my uncle who just turned 53 saw cray live and said it’s one of the best shows he’s ever seen. I hope you achieve this bucket list item
Still listening to this in 2024
Still here in April 2024 anyone ❤
Blues for life right here 😍
Stil here❤
@@stichting1019 Same here 👍
Robert Crays' staccato style of lead guitar playing is stunning, he doesn't rely on sustain and what avoice. The man is a legend
W1
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I saw him in Hawaii perform. Beatuful performance. Front row. Awesome.
Quite accurate, well said
Totally agree Gary!
This man is a blues legend.
Amen
One of em...
He has the most unique sound oit out of all of them. Legendary
THE KING
I love him as well..cool mother..I just want to crank his amp up a nudge..fine player..
@@michaelmccrossan5270 haha! He's that for sure.
This song STILL gives me goosebumps... his voice is haunting. Love Robert Cray!
love him also always will memories big time
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True daht 🌹
Just saw him yesterday and I swear his voice has not changed. It’s amazing.
@@signsofthetimessignsofposi9030 Where was the gig? Thanks.
If Robert Cray isn't on your list of Great Blues Players, then your list needs work as it's incomplete, enough said.
Damn, couldn't of said it better!
I dont have a Great Blues Players. Checkmate!
Yes..
M9
@@maxinehuirama7673 - That blues lick that goes with "say goodbye" is so perfect. That's song-writing, as well, I guess. 2:18
Saw him last night 3/29/24 AWESOME!!!
Saw him last week, so good!
Great mid 80s blues music, I even went to one of his concerts in 1988 in Auckland, so unbeatable.
True has he been to Nz?
I got to see Robert Cray, and the late SRV play the Texas blues fest. It was a glorious day of blues that made everyone CRAYzeee! SRV and Robert were very close and did alot of touring together. In fact we're very fortunate that we didn't lose Robert that same day. They usually traveled together.
RIP SRV..
I am going to see him tomorrow night.
Einfach mega suuuuuuper
Every Cray is unreal.The most under rated guitarst alive
+Tommy Preer and a great singer too
+Tommy Preer I remember him from the 90's. So very smooth and melodic
how true brother
How can Cray be under-rated when he plays beside Clapton and BB King et al? But I see what you mean.
+Chawki Nacef LOL
I was 15 when I first heard this. Saw Robert Cray at the Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney in the late 1980s and I am here now at 52, still enjoying this brilliant performer.
She’s just another notch on my guitar, cold 🥶
Well, she WAS right next door so….
The cleanest blues vocalest and guitar player ever.
😎
Beautiful
:53-55 secs, gives me chills. Is there a more beautiful voice?
@@rogerharbert2104 lou Rawls?
@@boneappleteeth4455 beautiful baritone for sure, guess I'm a big fan of the tenor range
Who’s listening in 2020
Me
@@IsmailsGuitarWorld I am...love this song! 👍
Who's listening all their life? As the years go by, one should appreciate great fucking BLUES that started it all.
@@Jen0714 Ditto!
@@boomerang6130 My goodness...where would we be if we didn't have music, especially now! Rock on!
What a complicated world we live in…
Right up there with Stevie Ray, Clapton and B.B. King as a guitarist. one of the cleanest sound you'll hear from a guitarist.
YES I LIKE ROBERT CRAY
Curtis Conner
I saw Stevie Ray, B.B. King and Robert Cray together at Rockefeller's, a small venue in Houston not long before Stevie Ray died in a plane crash. I also saw Ricky Nelson at the same venue and he died in a plane crash not long after I saw him, also... Crazy. Both were awsome concerts.
Curtis Conner can't forget Gary Moore
This guy is an amazing talent but he's no Stevie Ray.
Why would 1k people firstly find this song and then dislike it, Fuckin mental. Its Robert Cray the music flows freely people like a river
A wonderful voice, great guitar work and a great story teller through his music.
He is such a gentleman too, I seen him at the town Hall in Sydney Australia, He gave me his plectrum and the hand towel he had been using on stage. Just an all round excellent musician, singer and song writer. A true gentleman..that was in the very early 90's I still have the towel the pick got mixed up with my own but I still use that brand and I have 1 that is so rounded off its unusable now I believe it is the plectrum he gave me, won't swear it but seems like it..
My dad just showed me this song & man. I could never thank him enough
I've been listening to Robert Cray for 40 years !
This is a real blues standard.
It will never ever lose it's listening appeal
A real blues master
2023
Me too. My cousin's husband lived across the street and he would blast this song after work and I loved Robert ever since. Truly a legend, saw him back in his heyday around 92 👊🏿
I am 63 years old today and come from Germany. When I was backpacking through Asia in 1986 with my best friend (RIP brother🙏), I bought the Strong Persuader cassette by Robert Cray from a street vendor in Bangkok without ever having heard of him before. Since then, his fantastic music and very good lyrics have accompanied me through good times and bad (now via Spotify or RUclips). Timeless and incredibly good music. Keep it up Robert!
This video was ahead of it's time
Very cool take on adultery -- the perspective of the third party. Very unique concept for a blues lyric. One of the best guitar solos I've heard too.
i think it is an ode to hwo to be self indulgent to your friends and tell them that you are the mr cool cat...the women s bulldozer
You could tell that this man is very intelligent. Not only by his annunciation or lyrics but his attack on the guitar is unlike anyone else. He is unique in the blues in a blues world where everyone wants to sound like SRV, or most sang very similar. This man is in a class all by himself. He is one of my favorites, I love Albert Collins for the same reasons. I don’t think anyone is better than Albert Collins.
Well he is the blues 70s & 80s master with another master
Stevie ray Vaughan
Both
Smashing hits
But still party to the. In 2023
Children have as much fun in childhood as adults do in adultery
I was in the audience right alongside Robert Cray when he performed this track on 'Later, with Jools Holland'. I thought all my Christmases had come at once. Legend.
That's cookin,lucky lucky you
Incredible blues guitarist ,singer and so handsome!
that helped him be "such a strong persuader"
I saw this guy perform (on tv) at a Rolling Stones concert once.
His string bends are phenomenal. String bends rely on muscle memory to hit the note perfect, which he does. Unreal.
he plays at our blues fest every year on the river
Kevin Commerford wheres that??
Kevin Commerford the blues festival?
enquiring from New Zealand (:
If you want to know the intro chord it's X31341. Verse is Cm, Eb, F, Eb, Bb, Cm(barred chords). Chorus is Ab, Bb, Cm. Change solo intro is Eb, Cm, Bb, Ab, G. Then back to Chorus. Hope this helps, such a cool song!!
Dude, you must be a rock star. Thanks.
Big thank-you!
This is what guitar players do. Anyway.... we share chords. w/respect- only robert cray can really 'pull it off'. Thanks for sharing. And- years have passed- I wish that guy well.
Thank you
Jimmy Hendrix, thanks.
Wife got me tickets for Valentine's Day to see him tomorrow 2/17/24 in Charlottesville! Gotta love a women who knows great guitar!
1986 Grammy winner . Robert is underrated.
Grammys are tone deaf overated,Robert is genius with guitar!!😎😆
So True
What exquisite tone. Robert Cray was part of sort of a quiet blues explosion in Rock and Roll that went on through the nineties, at least in the South. Love this song. Robert Cray is an incredible talent.
Damn, remember when there was real music on the radio, you know, actual good music with lyrics for adults performed by people who could play not over produced machine sounds.
Like it was yesterday. Times were so much easier then and in so many ways... (lump in throat)
Only just. The shit on the radio now doesn't even count as music
DAK454 Pure talent is a thing of the past!!!
Robert Cray TWENTY
David Farrington That would mean someone heard this song and said this isn't a gorgeous song and Robert Cray can't play, and you know that's bullshit.
It was May 1987, when the Mercury PolyGram label just released Robert Cray's Right Next Door ( It's Because of Me) as the second single at the latter days of first grade, also the final times of living in an apartment/neighborhood before moving in a new house/neighborhood in June, and I would hear this on the radio station and on TV
These strong words of Robert, just pour your soul out of your heart and it was about a woman who was in an abusive relationship who lived next door.
I'm just here in 2024 , with many others.
This song is a masterpiece , the guitar sound is unique.
I love to put this album at parties and the mood shifts people singing dancing laughing everyone a expert on guitar 😂💙🧡
I been around a long, long time......heard 'em all....Muddy, Johnny W., Stevie Ray, B.B., Big Twist, all the Alberts....you get the picture.... Robert Cray is my absolute favorite. Never heard a voice like his, or songs like his. Laid a lot of pipe to his music. Nothing was better!
yes, yes, yes
Yes and smart enough to havea good background of talented musicians
Yeah, I know what yer sayin. Me too. Without being genre specific there are many very good blues guitar players out there although some are dead now. Alvin Lee, Mark Knofler, Gary Moore Joe Satriani ,David Gilmore to name just a few.
He makes the guitar talk, his voice is so smooth, I saw him in concert in Tucson, and enjoyed every minute!
Fark yeah
My sister recently died not that it has anything to do with this song and what it's actually in relation to but upon my sister dying I just so happened to find the Robert Cray brand somehow his music just got thrown into my music mix on RUclips one day and now I've been listening to Robert Cray ever since and I must say I really love his music
sorry about your sister 😔
im just a 18 old kid and i can not even discribe how much i love this man hopefully he'll come back with some news shows in The Netherlands! Loved it!
He was in maastricht last year ;)
Ik ook net n paar maanden 18 en luister dit zo graag lekker voor onder t rijden...😍
daniel koel september speelt Robert Cray in Hengelo
Daniel I truly hope that you are able to see him play. I turned 21 about the time that he started his career in Eugene, Oregon and I have seen him play many times and he is a true site for the eyes and ears...just wonderful.
Zag en hoorde hem in Werchter in 1986! Fantastisch! Zijn muziek heeft aan kracht niets ingeboet al die jaren.
Nothing more beautiful than a clean sounding Stat being played by someone that really knows how to play it...
+Ra N Robert and hank marvin play the strat very well
Richard Tattersall and Mark Knopfler.
Real players..
Amen.
Brings tears to my eyes! My parents, but deceased, absolutely loved Robert Cray! And who could blame them, he's amazing!!
I heard this on holiday in Abersoch in our caravan the day Muhammed Ali died. What a tune on a sad day.
slipnpitch perfectsymphony
I’m listening, 72 yrs old myself. First saw him jazz festival NO, he played behind muddy waters, I think guys name was?
Listen we were in adutorium not on jazz grounds. Muddy supposed be really good, sorry great!.
Robert Cray brought the horns, big piano and sang consiqinces brought the house down.
We saw him in small club in Houston of west hiemer 35 yrs ago, maybe 300 people there. Handed my wife baby blue pic ROBERT CRAY.
this guy and stevie ray saved the blues in the 80s!
@Walid Aladssani Awesome concert in Wellington N.Z in 1992.
Think you would love doing some extra research and listen to more blues artists. SRV will probably always be my favorite artist ever and I feel blessed that I saw Cray live: but they were certainly not the only ones
Amen.
Along with Clapton and Thorogood, they were certainly the most commercially viable at that time. Then Keb' Mo' in the 90s.
@Walid Aladssani i didn't say anyone was dead did i?i meant they kept the blues going in the 80s.f*** sake ,you just can't remark on anything these days without someone getting on their high horse. f*** off.
God I love this song.Robert Cray is genius
Smokin gun robert crayg
Apart from the funk and beauty of the melody, such a caring song. Hurtin blues sayin I wish I hadn’t done that babe...
Yes.. and he knew the axe would fall on current music too.
Strong persuader was my favorite cassette! Finally found that cd in a record store. I am complete!🙂
❤
Robert cray esse é genial em todos os sentidos musical!
He can make a guitar talk . I saw him in Richmond VA. About 1991. BB King is #1 ,he is my #2 favorite
A song that has beat, melody and a huge soul. This is no ordinary song. This is special.
way long ago I had a man named Jack play this song on his gutar and sing this song to me and i just love it! THANKS jACK FROM pALM sPRINGS
kim dishy I bet jack got his that night
Saw him at Celina's Coogie Bay in the 80s.Im listen now?2024 SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 💚
It was the summer of 1988 I was working in the kitchen at Tradernicks restaurants in pismo beach ca. And my co worker plays Robert Cray and I have been hooked ever since
One of the grooviest guitar riffs ever
I bought this album back in '86 when it first came out and haven't listened to it in a long time. Tell you what though, these songs sound just as good as they did back then. Absolutely timeless. I know some blues purists don't think Robert is gritty enough but I say balls to that. He's a great player, writes a great tune and has a great voice. Nowt more that one can ask for I think.
Wear it out.
Numbers and views apparently say nothing... Else this utter classic would have had over a billion views. A damn shame this generation doesn't appreciate real music!
I know that pain.// you can confess, repent and try to make amends but you can never "fix it".
One of my best friends died in 1987 in a car accident, he loved this song , so everytime i hear this song i think of him, always in my heart Dear Clemens😪😪
Hamstergirl4444
🙏🏻
omi53 Nice story :)
Saw him on SNL back in the day. Never seemed to look at his guitar. Amazing.
Right Next Door
Robert Cray
LYRICS
I can hear the couple fighting right next door
Their angry words sound clear through these thin walls
Around midnight I hear him shout unfaithful woman
And I knew right there the axe was gonna fall
It's because of me
It's because of me
I heard him shout who is he, she mumbled low
He said baby don't you lie to me no more
And I'm listening through these thin walls silently
As he called out my name I was right next door
It's because of me
It's because of me
She was right next door and I'm such a strong persuader
That she was just another notch on my guitar
She's gonna lose the man that really loves her
In the silence I can hear their breaking hearts
At daybreak I hear him back and say goodbye
I can hear him slam the door and walk away
Right next door I hear that woman start to cry
I should go to her but what would I say
It's because of me
It's because of me
She was right next door and I'm such a strong persuader
That she was just another notch on my guitar
She's gonna lose the man that really loves her
In the silence I can hear their breaking hearts
You got a few key words wrong or left out. The real name of the song is STRONG PERSUADER.
Off the album by the same name.
Geez ppl, please get it right. I've seen him live multiple times and it's wrong to miscredit or change his work.
Its because of me young Bob is missing, love the man.
I think Robert Cray's solos, come as close to vocals, as anyone I've ever heard.
When he stops singing to play his lead, he's still singing! Literally!!!!
It's spine tingling.
Could listen to him all day.
sure was underated
The bass on this song is also awesome! It very much completes Roberts playing style
Richard and Robert were in a band with my guitar teacher, Jho Blenis, back in the 1970’s in Tacoma WA.
The bands name was Foghorn Leghorn…no kidding!
I’ve seen him live , what a fantastic gig: Robert was phenomenal didn’t realise he played so hard, until I seen live, the band was Excellent,superb night
Reminds me of early childhood & my Dad. I sure miss them times 💚
Me too
Ver y good
Saw him in Pensacola last night. Guy puts on a brilliant performance
In the vibrant atmosphere of the 80s, my mother didn't miss any opportunity to have fun. And then came that fateful night when I was conceived between stacks of paper and empty bottles by Robert Clay. I am the son of a blues legend, and that's truly something special. I can only imagine how deep the music runs through my veins. It's in my DNA to carry on this musical legacy and write my own story. I will do my best to live out my passion for the blues and inspire the world with my music.
One of the best combinations of voice and guitar tone ever in the music history. Cray is a living legend. All respect for his dedication to the Blues.
Back in the late 80's, I was driving back from Stinson Beach, over Mt. Tam - a gorgeous drive along cliffs, and the ocean - but really spotty for a radio, lol...and this song comes on. I love blues - and the guys who play them - and this song just resonated with me, I was like "who IS this, I've got to find out"...fortunately, the radio didn't cut out before the announcer could say The Robert Cray Band, and that day, I found someone new to love ;) I still have a copy of this - on a cassette, lol, so I look online when I want to hear it, and I love this song as much as I did the first time ;)
***** Wow, I know and love that gorgeous drive. For me it was usually Muir Beach, but I remember that twisty road, beautiful view from Highway 1, down back into Mill Valley. Great times :-) Yeah, remember discovering amazing music on the radio?!?!
Anthony Bigler
I was never as fond of Muir Beach as I was Stinson - for me, Stinson was my place of power, especially when I started spending time there to recover from a long term relationship that had gone bad. That drive is so beautiful, and my first sight of Stinson was, well...magical?! It was at the break of dawn, after seeing my first Jerry Garcia show - some people I had met that night, decided to drive over Mt. Tam, it was foggy and mystical, and everybody was on acid ;) Made a real impression ;) And yeah, radio - damn, radio used to be so cool :)
+hamstergirl4444 what a great story! thanks.
Rick Ellis
Thanks....but which one? I think I told two in this thread, lol ;)
+hamstergirl4444 sorry, am not often here. I am a Canuck, but spent 15 years in the Bay Area. Stinson Beach is special for sure. For me, this song is really unparalleled because it's a confession, sincere. I should add I stayed 13 years in Switzerland and went every year to the Jazz Festival in Montreux and Cray opened up for BB King around 1985 and just blew us all away wow wow wowow
I got to see him probably 20 yrs ago for free at our county fair he was AMAZING. Hope to see hom again
Seriously, who bothers to watch a video with such talent, to then give it a thumbs down? Robert is a fantastic musician.
3:16 "Such a strong persuader, yeah!"
I saw Bob twice and it was fantastic. He’s a great songwriter and very melodic guitar player. Love the strat quack!
This is a very powerful ,true tragedy!Happens all the time to couples.
I recently listened to this song on my favorite radio station and I glad I found here who is the singer. Very cool!
I think that must be a radio station that plays very good music.
@@vincentwilliamson8561
Yes! ;-)
I saw Robert a few years ago when he opened for Eric Clapton in Houston. He was phenomenal. They played an encore together that brought the house down.
Faroutsingingbeautifulsoundsxxxxx
Sounds like a killer show! I saw him with Shemekia Copeland at Verizon years ago. All aces.
Hands down one of the all time greats! His ability to make the guitar sing and cry in that signature tone of his is unforgettable! His guitar is truly an extension of his smooth and soulful voice, and what I sense he is feeling deep inside. I wish I could sing and play like that!
THE MAN!!!
I Love You Sir Robert Cray. Lifelong Resident of Washington State. Seen You in Person in Seattle, Washington on 'My Birthday' with 'Sir John Lee Hooker'. Thank God for You and 'Your' CD 'Sin and Shame'. Helped me get through a very 'Painful' Divorce'. God Bless You and Yours...Favorite songs: Bouncin Back and 'On the Road Down'!...
enjoy
I love this song. Always have. I happened to be on Beale Street in Memphis, TN back in July. Went into a music store and they played this song at my request. Even sang it with an elderly man who I only know as "Smokey". He knew all the words. Just goes to show that great music lasts forever.
Fucking anxiety and no meds helped.
Then i discovered this legend.
Best part of my life and no meds needed since
I’m so happy to read this. Are you doing ok now?
@@elizabethmcleod246 I'm more than fine, thank you🤩 and his music is still amazing. And realy I'm a diehard hardstyle and hardcore lover....but this is timeless
@@nietbepalen Glad to hear it. Enjoy Mr. Cray.
This song is like a instruction manual on how a guitar should be played I haven't heard this track for 20 years so awesome to hear this long lost classic.
FANTASTIC SWING....MAGNIFICENT GUITAR
Criminally underrated
King of the hardtail Strat. Saw him on Saturday night in Edinburgh. Great night of music.
Remember this when it hit the UK first time
What an absolute belter 👍🏻
Love this song. Steve Wright RIP xx
Groovee😊!
Dear Robert, last night, Strong Persuader was playing in my dream.
Vastly underrated guitarist.
I just saw him playing life 2/16/24 amazing voice and guitar player
Who’s listening 2023?!
2024 listening
@@lynnadams7017 ur awesome lynn
That solo that kicks in at 3:35 is juste wonderfull...
I was not born in your generation. And no I don't know your music along ago. But Sir, I love you and love your music so much.
Ohhhh whoa whoa
Got this on a cassette ....before c.d.s....wore it out .Now I listen to it on magic radio .
Robert Cray good talent and good band backup.
Joseph Hickman Echt goed!