1. Wake Up And Smell The Coffee - 3:46
 2. I Need A Woman To Treat Me Right - 2:39
 3. Late Night City Blues - 6:20
 4. A Woman Don't Need - 5:28
 5. A Case Of The Blues - 4:24
 6. She Takes Good Care Of Me - 3:36
 7. When The Blues Come To Call - 4:02
 8. Same Old Fool - 4:50
 9. Lonely Room - 6:59

Chris Cain - Guitar, Vocals
Noel Catura - Saxophone
Kevin Deibert - Sax (Tenor)
Dave Eshelman - Trombone
Lizz Fischer - Keyboards
Robert Higgins - Drums
Jon Ruff - Trumpet
Ron Torbensen – Bass

Chris Cain's jazz-tinged, blues soaked guitar and deep, warm vocals have the maturity and authenticity of bluesmen many years his senior. His expressive style is the result of a lifetime of study and the relentless pursuit of music mastery. His passion and intensity are a blend of his mother's Greek ancestry and his father's soulful black heritage. Cain was raised on stories of his father's childhood upbringing on Memphis' Historic Beale Street and attended his first B.B King concert at the tender age of three. Blues music played continuously on the home stereo and family outings were often trips to concerts.

Cain recalls, "I remember when I was a kid, my Dad would be mowing the lawn with the stereo blasting Muddy Waters. When I look back, that was pretty cool! There was always music playing at our house, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, all the greats." At the age of eight, Cain taught himself to play guitar and began playing professionally before he was eighteen. Chris studied music at San Jose City College, and was soon teaching jazz improvisation on campus. Over the next twenty years, Cain would also master piano, bass guitar, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone. The combination of his blues upbringing and his jazz studies melded to form the searing guitar style that sets Chris Cain apart and has moved him to the top ranks of the blues music scene. Cain's debut recording, Late Night City Blues (Blue Rock'it Records-1987) garnered four W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations, including Guitarist of the Year. --- thelittleboxoffice.com

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1. First Time For Everything
2. World Got The Blues Before Sunrise
3. End Of The Tunnel
4. Hall Of Shame
5. Love Doin' Something
6. Stars Over Memphis
7. Downfall Of A Lonely Man
8. Up On Stoney Mountain
9. Double Dose
10. Love Just Moved
11. Ain't Gonna Worry
12. Feel The Chill

Chris Cain - guitar, vocals, keyboards
Dewayne Pate - bass
Patrick Ford - drums
Tony Lufrano - keyboards 
John R Burr - organ 
Garth Webber - rhythm guitar 
Mz Dee - backup vocals 

Within the broader genre of blues there are sub-categories among them the ‘Robert Johnson school’ which profoundly effected early Rock bands such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Allman Brothers. Another school are guitarists influenced by B.B King such as Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Chris Cain. When I heard that Cain was coming to perform in Omaha I grabbed a couple of CD’s I received over the years at Pacific Street Blues.Cain is a tasty guitar player with a strong tenor voice and an excellent vocabulary of licks and songs. His sound brings together classic Joe Williams vocals fronting B.B. King’s band.

It is fresh, remarkable, and void of trite cliches and gushing tributes.His sixth album, released in 2003, Hall of Shame, is an exceptionally well crafter blues album that uses texture & taste. Hall of Shame is a mellow affair with soaring solos and heartfelt vocals in a classic post 50’s electric blues sound. This is as perfect a “blues” album as you will ever find. Cain’s solos are jazzy crisp runs ala’ early Steely Dan that contribute to the melody line rather than simply fill up space with clutter. ---Rick Galusha, kiwrblues.blogspot.com

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   1. Pick Up The Tab
   2. Everything You Do Is Just Right
   3. Just Ain't My Plan
   4. You're The Kind Of Woman That Ain't That Hard To Find
   5. Real Bad Fall
   6. Turn It Loose
   7. My Mood
   8. Middle Name Is Trouble
   9. Woman Down In Texas
  10. Tippin' At Taylor's
  11. Never Knew I Could Be This Blue
  12. I'm Going Through A Love Detox
  13. Change Might Do Us Good

Chris Cain - Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards
Robert Higgins - Drums
Ron Torbensen - Bass
Noel Catura - Tenor Sax
Mark Whitney - Tenor & Bariton Sax
Dave Rampley - Rhythm Guitar on 2,3,4,8,10

This is a wonderful, big-voiced, contemporary West Coast bluesman and superb guitar player. There are several horns in the band, giving it a great, huge sound. Even better things will be coming. ---Niles Frantz, allmusic.com

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   1. Drinking Straight Tequila
   2. Helping Hand
   3. Good Old Days
   4. Do You Call That A Buddy
   5. Blues For Curtis J
   6. Good News
   7. Change My Luck
   8. I Still Want To Believe
   9. Living On A Fault Line
  10. Something's Got To Give
  11. Bad Situation
  12. The Day Your Good Luck Goes Away
  13. You Give Me The Strength
  14. Three Nights Without My Baby
  15. Unscheduled Flight

Chris Cain (vocals, guitar, piano); 
Garth Webber (guitar); 
Tony "Macaroni" Lufrano, John Burr (keyboards); 
Randy Hayes, Ron Beck, Patrick Ford (drums).

Chris Cain woke the whole blues world up with his First release, "Wake Up And Smell The Coffee." He was praised not only for his powerful vocals and slamming guitar, but also for his fresh song writing abilities. His blues songs were not just the same ond thing. Five releases later he is still doing it.

Now with the release of Unscheduled Flight Chris takes us on a journey to a whole different place. These songs are once again very different from those on his previous recordings but still 100% Chris Cain. And he still plays the guitar and sings his vocals like he has no choice. He really is one of the few originals out there and he just can't help making great music and great recordings. In the liner notes to this Cd Robben Ford says, "Very few artists understand the true spirit of the Blues the way Chris does. And, not only can he play it and sing it, he has a gift for song writing that is rare in Blues music today."

If you like original, powerful, modern blues, sung and played by a true master, then this is a Cd you must check out. ---Editorial Review

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