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BAF 18036LP
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$33.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 7/11/2025
"Bear Family Records re-releases the second soul/blues album Bobby 'Blue' Bland recorded in Los Angeles during 1973/74 -- entitled His California Album! Another milestone in soul/blues history on high-quality 180gram vinyl. Bland is quite justly regarded as one of the greatest US blues, soul and R&B singers of all time. Producer Steve Barri -- also responsible for Dreamer the following year -- brought guitarists Larry Carlton, Mel Brown, and Dean Parks into the studio. Contains 'This Time I'm Gone For Good,' '(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right,' and 'Help Me Through The Day,' classics of the genre. This first vinyl reissue on 180-gram has been carefully remastered and the original cover art is reproduced. When Bear Family released Dreamer by Bobby 'Blue' Bland (1930 -- 2013) on vinyl for the first time since its original release, it had no idea of the demand for this record. In 1973/74, Steve Barri produced two albums in Los Angeles with perhaps the greatest soul/blues singer of all time, which both met with a mixed reception at the time. After more than 50 years, however, Dreamer and its predecessor His California Album sound so 'hung up', cool and timeless, fantastic classics. The chant of the church combined with deep blues in Bland's interpretation is incredibly moving, the melancholy in his voice sounds so emotional, sometimes heartbreaking, at times cool and soft. Bland could be tough, but he also possessed the crooner qualities of Nat 'King' Cole, for example. His California Album -- the perfect synthesis of black soul and blues from the South and the coolness and laid-back attitude of Los Angeles."
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JBJ 1077EP
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Pure rhythm and soul perfection from Bobby Bland, an uplifting, call-and-response number guaranteed to pack the floor. On the flip side, a solemn and soulful workout of the blues standard.
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DOK 329LP
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"Here's The Man!!! was originally released in 1962 on Duke Records - Houston's legendary R&B label run by the infamous Don Robey - and is the second LP from Bobby 'Blue' Bland. Featuring one of his most enduring and classic hits, 'Turn On Your Love Light,' along with 10 other smoking R&B numbers - Here's The Man!!! is a fine showcase of one of the most influential and important R&B/soul singers of the 1960s." Includes a CD copy of the album.
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DOY 662LP
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"Originally released in 1961, blues singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland's legendary Two Steps From The Blues has been repeatedly called 'one of the best blues albums of all time', and Bland one of the genre's greatest singers (and top sex symbols in his day), no small feat in a genre so crowded with amazing talent. Throughout '60s and '70s Bland placed over 50 songs on the R&B charts, including 'I Pity The Fool', which shot to No. 1 and 'Turn On Your Love Light', a song that shaped the history of both R&B and rock & roll. Bland got his start singing in the early fifties as a member of a loosely knit group of musicians that included Junior Parker, Johnny Ace and B.B. King that formed around Memphis' famed Beale Street. Together these giants forged the new sound of Memphis blues, a sound that would carry both blues and R&B into the next millennium. Includes two bonus tracks 'Close To You' and 'How Does A Cheatin' Woman Feel'."
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