Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill/MCA Recordings
Editorial Reviews
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Bobby Bland's uptown, brass-and-strings-drenched blues kept him on the charts long after gut-bucket kings such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters had dropped from black-radio airwaves. The artistic successes chronicled on this second volume of his greatest hits shouldn't come as a surprise, then, despite the frequent input of ultracommercial producer Steve Barri, who'd crafted AM hits for acts as diverse as the Grass Roots and the post-Motown Four Tops. Even with some accommodations to trends (the disco beat of "The Soul of a Man," chicken-scratching guitars here, there, and everywhere), Bland kept on being Bland, cutting country songs ("Today I Started Loving You Again") and blues standards ("Goin' Down Slow") and investing Dan Penn's "I Hate You" with a unique pungency. This disc performs a valuable service in lifting the veil from an often-overlooked period in the career of one of American music's most important interpretive singers. --Rickey Wright --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill/MCA Recordings, Music, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Blues, Blues Music, Electric Texas Blues, Pop, R&B, Soul-Blues, Texas Blues
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill/MCA Recordings
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