Take Your Shoes Off is a blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 album by Robert Cray

Robert Cray

Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, as well as an acclaimed solo career.-Career:...

, winning the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album was awarded from 1988 to 2011. From 2001 to 2003 the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists...

. It was released on 27 April 1999, through the Rykodisc

Rykodisc

Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.-Company history:...

 label. The album won a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 not just for Cray, but also for drummer and composer Steve Jordan

Steve Jordan (musician)

Steve Jordan is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist, who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H...

 (who played on the album as well) as producer. Jordan, and his wife, Meegan Voss, also contributed to the album, with a composition they wrote together, entitled "It's All Gone".

Track listing

1. "Love Gone to Waste" (Tom Bingham, Willie Mitchell) - 4:39
2. "That Wasn't Me" (Cray) - 4:45
3. "All the Way" (Cray) - 5:11
4. "There's Nothing Wrong" (Cray) - 4:54
5. "24-7 Man" (Mack Rice
   Mack Rice
   Mack Rice , is a American songwriter, whose compositions have been performed by many well-known artists, including The Staple Singers, Ike and Tina Turner, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, Shirley Brown, Rufus Thomas, Etta James, Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Buddy Guy, The Rascals, Wilson Pickett,...
   
   , Jon Tiven
   Jon Tiven
   Jon Tiven is a composer, guitarist and record producer. He has produced albums by Wilson Pickett, Frank Black and Don Covay as well as a series of tribute albums paying tribute to the songwriting of Don Covay, Arthur Alexander, Otis Blackwell, Curtis Mayfield, and Van Morrison.-Early career:He was...
   
   ) - 3:22
6. Pardon" (Cray) - 5:49
7. "Let Me Know" (Cray) - 4:25
8. "It's All Gone" (Steve Jordan, Meegan Voss) - 5:21
9. "Won't You Give Him (One More Chance)" (Joseph Martin, Winfield Scott) - 3:11
10. "Living Proof" (Jim Pugh) - 5:31
11. "What About Me" (Cray) - 6:47
12. "Tollin' Bells" (Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon
    William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
    
    ) - 5:57

Personnel

• Robert Cray: vocals, guitar, bajo sexto
• Steve Jordan
  Steve Jordan (musician)
  Steve Jordan is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist, who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H...
  
  : guitar, bajo sexto, keyboards, bass, drums, snare drum, percussion, background vocals
• Jo-El Sonnier: accordion
• Jim Horn
  Jim Horn
  Jim Horn is an American saxophonist and woodwind player. He was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio...
  
  : tenor & baritone saxophones
• Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe...
  
  , Jim Spake, Doug Moffet: tenor saxophone
• James Mitchell: baritone saxophone
• Scott Thompson: trumpet
• Jack Hale: trombone
• Jim Pugh: keyboards
• Karl Sevareid: bass
• Kevin Hayes: drums
• The Nashelles: background vocals

• The Memphis Horns
  The Memphis Horns
  The Memphis Horns are an American horn section made famous by their many appearances on Stax Records. They have been called "arguably the greatest soul horn section ever." Originally a sextet, the Memphis Horns gradually slimmed down to a duo, Wayne Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love on tenor...
  
  : Andrew Love - tenor saxophone; Wayne Jackson - trumpet