Into the 60s with Bobby Bland and some of the finest material and arrangements in soul music from the best voice in town. Continuing the Bobby Bland story, we have another 26 sides from the finest of all blues singers, this time dating from 1959-1969, and what could be defined as his soul sides. Bobby Bland covers the whole gamut of blues, R&B and soul on this compilation, with Joe Scott's arrangements spicing the proceedings with the odd flash of jazzy horn parts. But it's that voice that holds it all down, with such apparent effortlessness, whether it be on the melancholic Who Will The Next Fool Be, or rocking out on Turn On Your Lovelight. All of Bland's major singles are here, alongside a few more obscure titles, like the idiosyncratic Blue Moon and the title track of his most well known album, Two Steps From The Blues. A veritable feast of goodies for lovers of soul, R&B, or just downright great music. File under Essential. (The R&B Review)
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01 Who Will The Next Fool Be 02 I Pity The Fool 03 Don't Cry No More 04 Ain't That Loving You 05 I'm Not Ashamed 06 Cry, Cry, Cry 07 I'll Take Care Of You 08 Call On Me 09 Blue Moon 10 Turn On Your Love Light 11 Stormy Monday Blues 12 Two Steps From The Blues 13 Ain't Nothing You Can Do 14 Ain't Doing Too Bad Part 1 15 Sometimes You Gotta Cry A Little 16 Ain't No Telling 17 Yield Not To Temptation 18 I'm Too Far Gone To Turn Around 19 These Hands (Small But Mighty) 20 Good Time Charlie Part 1 21 Ask Me 'bout Nothing (But The Blues) 22 Share Your Love With Me 23 That Did It 24 Shoes 25 Back In The Same Old Bag Again 26 Chains Of Love
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BOBBY “BLUE” BLAND "The Voice"
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gitit! no pw
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Thanks Gyro!!
Bobby "Blue" is my favorite.
BONUS 5 OF 8
NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush (1970, Pono Remaster 2014) @320
In the 15 months between the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, Neil Young issued a series of recordings in different styles that could have prepared his listeners for the differences between the two LPs. His two compositions on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album Déjà Vu, "Helpless" and "Country Girl," returned him to the folk and country styles he had pursued before delving into the hard rock of Everybody Knows; two other singles, "Sugar Mountain" and "Oh, Lonesome Me," also emphasized those roots. But "Ohio," a CSNY single, rocked as hard as anything on the second album. After the Gold Rush was recorded with the aid of Nils Lofgren, a 17-year-old unknown whose piano was a major instrument, turning one of the few real rockers, "Southern Man" (which had unsparing protest lyrics typical of Phil Ochs), into a more stately effort than anything on the previous album and giving a classic tone to the title track, a mystical ballad that featured some of Young's most imaginative lyrics and became one of his most memorable songs. But much of After the Gold Rush consisted of country-folk love songs, which consolidated the audience Young had earned through his tours and recordings with CSNY; its dark yet hopeful tone matched the tenor of the times in 1970, making it one of the definitive singer/songwriter albums, and it has remained among Young's major achievements. (Allmusic)
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BONUS 6 OF 8
CLINT BRADLEY - Riding After Midnight '14 @320
What a great album!
Clint Bradley (Blue Cats) delivers a stunning Western style soundtrack to the dreams of so many (with a romantic sense). Just imagine Marty Robbins and Elvis Presley singing
'My Rifle My Pony And Me', and you'll have the picture of this amazing production! Bear Family crew favorite end2014/start2015!***** (rated 5 Stars out of Five by Bear Family staff)
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BONUS 7 OF 8
THE TEMPTATIONS - Sing Smokey '65 @320
This was only the group's second LP, and it was an extremely strong one, built around two monster hits ("My Girl" and the previously recorded "The Way You Do the Things You Do") and one close runner-up ("It's Growing"), plus a brace of some of the best songs in the Motown catalog, including renditions of "You Beat Me to the Punch," "What's So Good About Goodbye?," "You've Really Got a Hold on Me," and "Way Over There." All are done in a style unique to the Temptations, with arrangements that are distinctly different from the familiar versions by other Motown acts, and all are worthwhile. The original CD version, released in the mid-'80s, was a major disappointment. In 1998, it was remastered in 24-bit digital audio, giving it vastly superior sound quality (the 1998 copyright on the back is the giveaway, along with the reference to Polygram as owner of Motown); it was the first of the classic individual Motown albums already out on CD to get this treatment. The stereo separation on the reissue is very sharp, the sound is a lot closer and louder, and the detail is startling, right down to the rhythm section, parts of which, on "Baby, Baby I Need You" and "My Girl," stand out in astonishingly sharp relief. The bass on the latter is so solid it's scary, and the disc is worth owning almost as much for the sound as the music, just to show what listeners were missing on those earlier CDs. (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)
The Temptations Sing Smokey leans heavily on a great soul-music tradition: the practice of Motown artists' covering each other's hits as album tracks. Not that the Temptations' versions of Smokey Robinson-penned Miracles and Mary Wells singles qualify as filler. Hardly, as Eddie Kendricks's falsetto makes a convincing stand-in for Robinson's on remakes of "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" and "What's So Good About Good Bye." Many of these tracks also underscore the strong doo-wop roots at the core of the Temptations' style, none more so than "Baby, Baby I Need You," which barely bothers to update its '50s influences for mid-'60s ears. This minor gem comes complete with three hit singles in "My Girl," "The Way You Do the Things You Do," and "It's Growing." --Rickey Wright
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BONUS 8 OF 8
THE MAVERICKS - Music For All Occasions '95 @256
After the commercial and critical success of What a Cryin' Shame, the Mavericks were given a bit more creative latitude while making their fourth album, 1995's Music for All Occasions; lead vocalist Raul Malo co-produced the disc, and the '50s pop accents that were bubbling under the surface on their previous set began to rise to the surface, both in their music and in the wink-and-nudge camp of the album's artwork. Malo's deeply emotive tenor voice was made to order for polished supper-club pop tunes like "Foolish Heart" and "Missing You," and while the production and arrangements here possess an appropriate degree of high gloss, the band still finds room to let their own personalities shine though, especially guitarist Nick Kane, who makes with some fine hipster jazz picking. the Mavericks do inject a little classic country into this set, most notably the potent two-step of "The Writing on the Wall," and they were able to have their cake and eat it too with the melodramatic "Here Comes the Rain" and the lively Tex-Mex rave-up "All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down" (featuring Flaco Jimenez on accordion), both of which were major hits. While What a Cryin' Shame was a slam dunk of an album, Music for All Occasions is a slyer, more subtle affair, and the polished cool of its surfaces aren't as immediately inviting, but the record's abundant pleasures become clear upon repeated listenings, and its one of the group's best and most accomplished studio sets.
(Mark Deming, Allmusic)
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great one !!! Thank you
Thank you for Bland.
Thanks for the Temps, prime stuff!
Mose
Thanks
Thanks for The Temptations!
HI Johnny. I never got the chance to see Bobby Bland and I'm sure he was great in a live setting but my favorite was Muddy Waters who I was fortunate to see several times.
Ralph11
Wow, another killer post!
Thanks RYP for the Blue Bland collection of later material. He's simply among the best.
And Gyro, I VERY MUCH appreciate the Pono remasters you've been generously providing for us. And then a stereo remaster of the fabulous Temptations to top it off!
Looking forward to that Temps side...haven't heard the whole thing probably in decades
I agree totally to what Sfdoomed has wrotten!
LittleJack
Gyro 1966, thanks for the Temps post.
Love, love, love that album!
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