Robert Cray And The Robert Cray Band - Too Many Cooks (1991)

The most commercially and critically successful blues artist of his
generation, Robert Cray took his music to the upper reaches of the
pop and rock charts when many major blues acts were counting their
sales in the tens of thousands.

On the strength of his breakthrough album, 1986's Strong Persuader,
Cray landed eight singles in the Top 40 of the American Rock Singles
charts between 1986 and 1992, with two of them ("Smoking Gun" and
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark") rising to number two and number four,
respectively.

One of the most important things that set Cray apart from his peers
on the blues scene in the '80s and '90s was his focus on songwriting
rather than guitar heroics.