Bobby "Blue" Bland - "Bobby ""Blue"" Bland - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill/MCA Recordings"
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"Bobby ""Blue"" Bland - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill/MCA Recordings"
Music Price: $9.98 As of Nov 18 12:45 EST (details)
 
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| Artist(s) | Bobby "Blue" Bland |
| Studio | Mca |
| Release Date | July 14, 1998 |
| UPC Code | 008811180928 |
| Buy this item | $9.98 at Amazon.com As of Nov 18 12:45 EST (details) 1 Audio CD, Usually ships in 24 hours, |
About Bobby "Blue" Bland - "Bobby ""Blue"" Bland - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill/MCA Recordings"
Bobby Bland's uptown, brass-and-strings-drenched blues kept him on the charts long after gut-bucket kings such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters had dropped from black-radio airwaves. The artistic successes chronicled on this second volume of his greatest hits shouldn't come as a surprise, then, despite the frequent input of ultracommercial producer Steve Barri, who'd crafted AM hits for acts as diverse as the Grass Roots and the post-Motown Four Tops. Even with some accommodations to trends (the disco beat of "The Soul of a Man," chicken-scratching guitars here, there, and everywhere), Bland kept on being Bland, cutting country songs ("Today I Started Loving You Again") and blues standards ("Goin' Down Slow") and investing Dan Penn's "I Hate You" with a unique pungency. This disc performs a valuable service in lifting the veil from an often-overlooked period in the career of one of American music's most important interpretive singers. --Rickey Wright Amazon.com
Tracks
- This Time I'm Gone for Good - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Malone, Deadric
- Goin' Down Slow - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Oden, James Burke
- I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me) - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Price, Michael
- Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Price, Michael
- Yolanda - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Moore, Daniel
- I Ain't Gonna Be the First to Cry - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Price, Michael
- Today I Started Loving You Again - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Haggard, Merle
- I Hate You - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Daniels, Leroy
- The Soul of a Man - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Bland, Bobby
- It Ain't the Real Thing - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Price, Michael
- Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Hiller, Ron
- Let the Good Times Roll - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Moore, Fleecie
- You'd Be a Millionaire - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Bland, Bobby
- Love to See You Smile - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Ervin, David
- Recess in Heaven - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Vee, Pea
- Soon as the Weather Breaks - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Bland, Bobby
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