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Bobby 'Blue' Bland The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD)

The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD)
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Great Texas Blues vocalist; some of the greatest recordings of the 1950s; BOBBY 'BLUE' BLAND -... more

Bobby 'Blue' Bland: The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD)

Great Texas Blues vocalist; some of the greatest recordings of the 1950s; BOBBY 'BLUE' BLAND - voc, featuring ROY GAINES - gt, WAYNE BENNETT - gtr, etc.
These early Duke recordings from the maestro of the blues represent the best of the late 50s Bobby Bland.

Article properties: Bobby 'Blue' Bland: The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD)

  • Interpret: Bobby 'Blue' Bland

  • Album titlle: The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label Ace Records

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0029667130226

  • weight in Kg 0.107
Bland, Bobby 'Blue' - The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD) CD 1
01 No Blow, No Show Bobby 'Blue' Bland
02 Wise Man's Blues Bobby 'Blue' Bland
03 Army Blues Bobby 'Blue' Bland
04 Lost Lover Blues Bobby 'Blue' Bland
05 It's My Life, Baby Bobby 'Blue' Bland
06 Honey Bee Bobby 'Blue' Bland
07 Time Out Bobby 'Blue' Bland
08 Million Miles From Nowhere Bobby 'Blue' Bland
09 Woke Up Screaming Bobby 'Blue' Bland
10 you've Got Bad Intentions Bobby 'Blue' Bland
11 I Can't Put You Down Baby Bobby 'Blue' Bland
12 I Don't Believe Bobby 'Blue' Bland
13 I Learned My Lesson Bobby 'Blue' Bland
14 I Smell Trouble Bobby 'Blue' Bland
15 Don't Want No Woman Bobby 'Blue' Bland
16 Further Up The Road Bobby 'Blue' Bland
17 Teach Me Bobby 'Blue' Bland
18 Bobby's Blues Bobby 'Blue' Bland
19 You Got Me Bobby 'Blue' Bland
20 Loan A Helping Hand Bobby 'Blue' Bland
21 Last Night Bobby 'Blue' Bland
22 Little Boy Blue Bobby 'Blue' Bland
23 You Did Me Wrong Bobby 'Blue' Bland
24 I Lost Sight On The World Bobby 'Blue' Bland
25 Wishing Well Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Bobby Blue Bland Along about 1959, the Duke Records braintrust astutely recognized that Bobby... more
"Bobby 'Blue' Bland"

Bobby Blue Bland

Along about 1959, the Duke Records braintrust astutely recognized that Bobby 'Blue' Bland had serious potential to cross over into the pop realm and make a much bigger splash than he already had in the blues and R&B arenas. The Rosemark, Tennessee native's melismatically enriched vocal style always got him over very well with the ladies, despite his not being a particularly agile presence onstage. Thanks to his wonderfully warm pipes, he didn't need to be 

It had taken Bland awhile to break through to the big time. He'd been recording for Duke since 1952, when it was still located in Memphis and before Houston entrepreneur Don Robey took the imprint over. Bland's impassioned wails and Duke's scorching house band had combined to cut some spectacular swinging blues sides, but Bobby didn't crack the R&B charts until 1957 with Farther Up The Road (see Disc Five).  Bland's artistic focus was steadily evolving, thanks to Duke in-house trumpeter/arranger/A&R man Joe Scott, who served as his mentor.

"He was just a gift from God, Joe Scott, because he taught me and everybody that was around the Duke label," says Bobby. "Joe Scott picked some good stories for me to tell, because he saw that I was a good storyteller if I had the lyrics. Not the long, drawn-out lyrics. Just make 'em short and to the point and leave some opening for ad-libbing, whatever your idea would be. 

Bobby's high-flying vocal range deepened when he underwent a tonsillectomy. "I wasn't able to hit a falsetto type like I had been singing in earlier years, after the operation with the tonsils. So it kind of lowered my voice," says Bland, who adopted a favorite vocal move of a famous singing preacher as his new trademark. "I was listening to 'The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest' by the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and I heard the squall in there. So I worked on it for about four or five days and developed it. It gave me a different Bobby Bland." He utilized that squall unforgettably on his spine-chilling 1958 hit Little Boy Blue.

When Bobby crooned Brook Benton's sedate ballad I'll Take Care Of You and blasted up to #2 on the R&B hit parade in early '60, it appeared he was leaving the blues behind. But Bland happily reverted to his roots on I Pity The Fool, a loping mid-tempo blues punctuated by Wayne Bennett's stinging guitar and a six-piece horn section led by Scott (Bobby's rhythm section consisted of pianist Teddy Reynolds, bassist Hamp Simmons and drummer John 'Jabo' Starks). The song was waxed on November 12, 1960 in Chicago, while Bland's contingent was on tour. Originally credited to Robey under his Deadric Malone sobriquet but probably written by Houston singer Joe Medwick Veasey, who also co-penned Farther Up The Road (Robey was in the habit of buying songs outright), I Pity The Fool catapulted to the top of the R&B charts and made a solid #46 pop showing.

"Joe Medwick, he did some hell of a writing when he did all those tunes," says former Duke house guitarist Texas Johnny Brown.

"Joe (Scott) found that, really," says Bobby. "It was a good change. I always had some good writers after I got my first record out there, and writers started pinpointing on what would be good for Bobby Bland: 'I'm going to write this particular tune.' It was a big thing for me."

Bland was by now a leading luminary on the R&B circuit with major pop appeal and would remain so on Duke into 1972. His non-stop litany of smashes included the gospel-fueled Turn On Your Love Light (1961) and Yield Not To Temptation (1962) as well as a lights-out '62 revival of T-Bone Walker's Stormy Monday Blues and the pop-oriented double-sided 1963 smash That's The Way Love Is b/w Call On Me

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois 

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Tracklist
Bland, Bobby 'Blue' - The '3Bs' Blues Boy - The Blues Years 1952-1959 (CD) CD 1
01 No Blow, No Show
02 Wise Man's Blues
03 Army Blues
04 Lost Lover Blues
05 It's My Life, Baby
06 Honey Bee
07 Time Out
08 Million Miles From Nowhere
09 Woke Up Screaming
10 you've Got Bad Intentions
11 I Can't Put You Down Baby
12 I Don't Believe
13 I Learned My Lesson
14 I Smell Trouble
15 Don't Want No Woman
16 Further Up The Road
17 Teach Me
18 Bobby's Blues
19 You Got Me
20 Loan A Helping Hand
21 Last Night
22 Little Boy Blue
23 You Did Me Wrong
24 I Lost Sight On The World
25 Wishing Well