Bobby Blue Bland - His California Album
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Artist: Bobby Blue BlandEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: Mca Special Products
Soundtracks:
- This Time I'm Gone For Good
- Up & Down World
- It's Not The Spotlight
- If Loving You Is Wrong-I Don't Want To Be Right
- Goin' Down Slow
- The Right Place At The Right Time
- Help Me Through The Day
- Where My Baby Went
- Friday The 13th Child
- I've Got To Use My Imagination
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Free Music Review: Coming Back for More
Hit: 5 Stars
I found a vinyl LP of this album @ a vintage shop in Wilmington NC. Through the scratchy grooves came some of the most powerful soulful blues I've heard. It sparked my living room with complete surprise. I'm so glad the CD version is available. It is well worth seeking out 35 years after the album was first released! The set opens with "This Time I'm Gone for Good," a slow ballad with Bobby milking every ounce of feeling with some incredibly juicy blues guitar, "I should've stayed gone when I left before; You do me wrong when we're together, but I keep coming back for more." Liner notes indicate the track went to #5 on the R&B charts. Vernon Morrison & Deadrick Malone's "Up & Down World" continues the soulful groove. Gerry Goffin wrote the lyrics to "It's Not the Spotlight"; and the song's opening has an eerie similarity to Carole King's "Child of Mine" from her Writer CD. "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" has more of that lovely slow soul that mirrors a Me-&-Mrs.-Jones theme. "Going Down Slow" also went to the R&B top twenty with Michael Omartian's piano oozing loads of feeling to match Bland's vocal chops. "The Right Place at the Right Time" opens with a peppy "Grazing in the Grass" percussion and then blossoms into a lovely pop blues. Leon Russell wrote "Help Me Through the Day" that was recently recorded by John Mayall & cuts a classic blues ache. "Where My Baby Went" is another strong workingman's blues. "I've Got to Use My Imagination" closes the CD with another classic track. Joan Osborne recently recorded it on her Breakfast in Bed CD as well as versions by Joe Cocker from his One Night of Sin CD and versions by Gladys Knight & Tom Jones. "His California Album" is a stunning set that sounds fresh 35 years later. Don't miss it! Enjoy!
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