The Robert Cray Band released their Sanctuary Records debut entitled Time Will Tell on July 1, 2003. Cray and long time keyboardist Jim Pugh produced the record, which featured guest artists Jerry Martini and Cynthia Robinson (Sly & the Family Stone Horns), Turtle Island String Quartet and Luis Conte. Cray is a five-time Grammy Award winning artist long acclaimed for his prowess in the idioms of blues and Southern soul. Pugh, Cray and the band have seized the opportunity with this new project to explore some compelling alternate routes on the musical map that should satisfy yet surprise long time fans of the band.