Nashville fans of blues and soul are in for a treat Friday night, when The Robert Cray Band’s All Amped Up Tour 2026 makes a stop at the CMA Theater, their first appearance in the city since spring 2024. A scorching guitarist and soulful vocalist, Cray is a blues and soul icon — a living legend. Known for his signature blend of blues, soul and rock, he’s a five-time Grammy winner in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category, a 20-time Blues Music Awards winner and a member of the Blues Hall of Fame. He received the Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance in 2017. Cray isn’t touring in support of a new album — his latest release was That’s What I Heard in 2020 — so his shows feature selections from across his entire catalog of nearly two dozen studio albums. “All these years we have been fortunate to do what we love doing, playing the music we love playing,” Cray says. “I couldn’t ask for anything more.” The current incarnation of Cray’s band features longtime bassist Richard Cousins, keyboardist Dover Weinberg and drummer Les Falconer.
8 p.m. at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater
224 Rep. John Lewis Way S.
