Bobby "Blue" Bland - His California Album

Artist:

Bland, Bobby "Blue"

UPC:

008811034924

See Also:

Turner, Big Joe Reed, Jimmy (Blues) Pickett, Wilson Charles, Ray B.B. King/Bobby "Blue" Bland - Together for the First Time...Live Bobby "Blue" Bland/B.B. King - Together Again...Live King, B.B./Bobby Bland - Together Again Live [Import]

Description:

Personnel: Bobby "Blue" Bland (vocals); Ben Benay, David Cohen, Larry Carlton, Mel Brown, Dean Parks (guitar); Chuck Findley, Paul Hubinon, Dick Hyde, Ernie Watts, Jack Kelson Jr. (horns); Michael Omartian (piano, organ); Wilton Felder, Max Bennett (bass); Ed Greene (drums); Ginger Blake, Julia Tillman, Maxine Willard (background vocals).
Includes liner notes by Andy McKaie.
Bland`s first album for ABC-Dunhill was aptly titled. The players were the cream of the Los Angeles session scene (particularly bassist Wilton Felder and guitarist Larry Carlton), and backup singer Ginger Blake was a member of the legendary Brian Wilson-produced girl group the Honeys. Fortunately, all of them proved thoroughly sympathetic to Bland`s brand of down-home blues, and the resulting album is neither overproduced nor slick. On the contrary, HIS CALIFORNIA ALBUM has a nice, late-night feel reminiscent of B.B. King`s "The Thrill is Gone."
Bland, who`s in exceptionally good voice here, simmers his way through some cover songs that suit his impassioned delivery to a T, including Gladys Knight`s "I`ve Got to Use My Imagination," Luther Ingram`s "I Don`t Want to Be Right," and Gerry Goffin`s "It`s Not the Spotlight." The album`s high point, however, is the opening "This Time I`m Gone for Good," a beautiful, modern soul-blues plaint sung by Bland with just the right amount of intensity and regret. "Six Degrees of Bobby Bland" trivia: Trip-hop folkie Beth Orton covered "Spotlight" on the soundtrack to the 1999 Kevin Bacon film A Stir of Echoes.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. This Time I`m Gone For Good
2. Up and Down World
3. It`s Not the Spotlight
4. I Don`t Want to Be Right, (If Loving You Is Wrong)
5. Goin` Down Slow
6. Right Place at the Right Time, The
7. Help Me Through the Day
8. Where My Baby Went
9. Friday the 13th Child
10. I`ve Got to Use My Imagination

Album Information

Release Date:

09/22/1998

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Texas/W. Coast Blues

Label:

Universal Special Products

Producer:

Steve Barri

Catalog Number:

10349

Original Release Year:

1973

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

AAD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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