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500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die!
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Over the 1952-82 time-span covered here, Bobby "Blue" Bland united tough-as-pavement blues singing with heartbroken Southern R&B, and helped to create chitlin-circuit soul as we know it now. Too raw for most oldies radio, Bland was a major presence in his time: 30 of these 50 songs hit the pop charts, and almost all of them were significant R&B hits. The first disc-and-a-half documents his long-running Duke Records collaboration (in Chicago, Texas, and Nashville) with trumpeter Joe Scott, who wrote ambitious arrangements that ran from tender love-man pop to howling, honking blues terrorism, but usually
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Manufacturer: Mca
Release date: 5 June 2001
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0008811259624 UPC: 008811259624
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Release date: 5 June 2001
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0008811259624 UPC: 008811259624
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JxSxPx added this to a list 6 years, 10 months ago
500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)"Though it spans 1952 to 1982 and thus misses Bland’s Indian summer, The Anthology still gloriously celebrates Tennessee’s finest voice. And what a voice: as comfortable with lascivious R&B as it is with white-bread MOR. Standout track: “I’m Too Far Gone (To Turn Around)” "
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