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Without a doubt, Two Steps from the Blues is the definitive Bobby "Blue" Bland album and one of the great records in electric blues and soul-blues. In fact, it's one of the key albums in modern blues, marking a turning point when juke joint blues were seamlessly blended with gospel and Southern soul, creating a distinctly Southern sound where all of these styles blended so thoroughly it was impossible to tell where one began and one ended. Given his Memphis background, Bobby "Blue" Bland was perfectly suited for this kind of amalgam as envisioned by producer/arranger Joe Scott, who crafted these wailing horn arrangements that sounded as impassioned as Bland's full-throated, anguished vocals. It helped, of course, that the songs were uniformly brilliant. Primarily from the pen of Deadric Malone, along with Duke head Don Robey and Scott (among others), these are the tunes that form the core of Bobby "Blue" Bland's legend and the foundation of soul-blues: "Two Steps from the Blues," "I Don't Want No Woman," "Cry, Cry, Cry," "I'm Not Ashamed," "Lead Me On," "Little Boy Blue" -- songs so good they overshadow standards like "St. James Infirmary." These are songs that blur the division between Ray Charles soul and Chess blues, opening the doors for numerous soul and blues sounds, from Muscle Shoals and Stax through the modern-day soul-bluesman. Since this, like many blues albums from the late '50s/early '60s, was a collection of singles, it's possible to find the key tracks, even the entire album, on the numerous Bobby "Blue" Bland collections released over the years, but this remains an excellent, essential blues album on its own terms -- one of the greatest ever released.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby Bland, MainArtist - John Riley Brown, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Bland, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DON D. ROBEY, ComposerLyricist - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1959 Geffen Records
DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - Leon Copeland, ComposerLyricist - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
DON D. ROBEY, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Bland, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist - Leonard Chess, Producer - Phil Chess, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Joe Scott, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1961 Geffen Records
Joseph Wade Scott, ComposerLyricist - LaCharles Harper, ComposerLyricist - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1958 Geffen Records
Joe Scott, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - DON ROBEY, Producer - Joe Primrose, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1961 Geffen Records
Brook Benton, ComposerLyricist - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1959 Geffen Records
DON D. ROBEY, ComposerLyricist - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby "Blue" Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - Roy Agee, ComposerLyricist - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby Bland, MainArtist - Ray Agee, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
Joe Scott, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby Bland, MainArtist - Clifton Williams Smith, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - DON ROBEY, Producer - Bobby Bland, MainArtist
℗ 1960 Geffen Records
Presentación del Álbum
Without a doubt, Two Steps from the Blues is the definitive Bobby "Blue" Bland album and one of the great records in electric blues and soul-blues. In fact, it's one of the key albums in modern blues, marking a turning point when juke joint blues were seamlessly blended with gospel and Southern soul, creating a distinctly Southern sound where all of these styles blended so thoroughly it was impossible to tell where one began and one ended. Given his Memphis background, Bobby "Blue" Bland was perfectly suited for this kind of amalgam as envisioned by producer/arranger Joe Scott, who crafted these wailing horn arrangements that sounded as impassioned as Bland's full-throated, anguished vocals. It helped, of course, that the songs were uniformly brilliant. Primarily from the pen of Deadric Malone, along with Duke head Don Robey and Scott (among others), these are the tunes that form the core of Bobby "Blue" Bland's legend and the foundation of soul-blues: "Two Steps from the Blues," "I Don't Want No Woman," "Cry, Cry, Cry," "I'm Not Ashamed," "Lead Me On," "Little Boy Blue" -- songs so good they overshadow standards like "St. James Infirmary." These are songs that blur the division between Ray Charles soul and Chess blues, opening the doors for numerous soul and blues sounds, from Muscle Shoals and Stax through the modern-day soul-bluesman. Since this, like many blues albums from the late '50s/early '60s, was a collection of singles, it's possible to find the key tracks, even the entire album, on the numerous Bobby "Blue" Bland collections released over the years, but this remains an excellent, essential blues album on its own terms -- one of the greatest ever released.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
Acerca del álbum
- 1 disco(s) - 14 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:34:30
- Artistas principales: Bobby Bland
- Compositor: Various Composers
- Sello: Geffen
- Género Blues/Country/Folk Blues
© 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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