Sugaray Rayford @ The Ropetackle

Name: Sugaray Rayford @ The Ropetackle
Start: 2025-01-20T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Ropetackle Arts Centre

Schedule

Mon, 20 Jan, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Ropetackle Arts Centre | Shoreham-by-sea, EN

“Vocal magic and a killer band." – Soul Tracks
Sugaray Rayford is a man with a message and a larger than life personality and voice to deliver it. Working with producer, songwriter Eric Corne for the past three albums, the soul/blues powerhouse has crafted an incendiary sound and narrative, combining classic soul melodies and funky R & B grooves with raw blues power. "
The pair's first collaboration, Somebody Save Me, earned Rayford a 2020 Grammy nomination. Later that year he took home Blues Music Awards for 'Soul Blues Male Artist' and 'B.B. King Entertainer of the Year.' Rayford’s follow up In Too Deep won a plethora of awards including the Blues Music Award for ‘Soul Blues Album of the Year’.
Rayford’s new release is entitled ‘Human Decency’. The title track is a simple reminder that our similarities are stronger than our differences and in the end, there is no black or white or left or right, there are only hearts and minds.
An all-star cast lent their talents to the album, including guitarist Rick Holmstrom and singer Saundra Williams who are both from Mavis Staples’s band, along with bassist Taras Prodaniuk (Lucinda Williams, Merle Haggard).