Track Listing

1. Intro, Bobby Bland Orchestra
2. When Your Love Is Not Around
3. That's the Way Love Is
4. Love of Mine
5. As Soon as the Weather Breaks
6. Farther on Up the Road
7. I Pity the Fool
8. Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
9. St. James Infirmary
10. I'll Take Care of You
11. Get Your Money Where You Spend Your Time
12. You've Got to Hurt Before You Heal
13. Sunday Morning Love
14. If You're Gonna Walk on My Love
15. Bobby Rush, Johnnie Taylor Introduction/Rap
16. Stormy Monday
17. Medley: Double Trouble/She's Puttin' Somethin' in My Food [Medley]
18. Members Only
19. 24 Hours a Day

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53285 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Living Blues
[This] hour-long set ... recorded at the New Daisy Theater, should be especially welcome for listeners who yearn for the glory days when Bland recorded with his crack road band instead of studio sessionmen.... [He and his band] can still raise goosebumps.... Save for his still-painful "squall," Bland is in good voice and good humor, too, as he banters with audience, guests, and bandsmen alike.... "Live" on Beale Street is a triumph for Bobby Blue Bland and deserves to be counted among the very few indispensable live blues recordings.

Customer Reviews

Dreams come true
How long have we been waiting for this? Bobby Bland with his overwhelming band LIVE ON BEALE STREET? I am a blues fan from Germany who saw Bobby several times in the States, in Chicago and New York City. Bobby is without doubt the greatest blues singer and he proves this on this occasion. Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Rush, longtime chitlin-curcuit friends round the great recording up. Only negative side: Bobby, please look for a different horn section!! They are not in tune on this CD and not on other concerts. 5 stars for the atmosphere, the sound , the rhythm-section (10 stars!!!) and the star, only 2 stars for the horns. Nevertheless that' s the stuff dreams are made of.

Wonderful Melodic Bobby...Bobby....Bobby...Live on B. Street
Bobby is and always will be the greatest Man of Blues. Live on B. Street is running a close second to an actual appearance by this great and hypnotic story teller. Ain't no sunshine...Members only...all of the greatest with a little help from Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Rush welcomed but unneccesary. Bobby has the style and sound of something so soothing and warm. I recently enjoyed seeing Bobby in Mpls and he is looking and sounding better than ever before. Keep it up, hear!

What live blues is all about.
For those of you who know Bobby "Blue" Bland only through the recordings he's made with B.B. King, this CD showcases Bland as the Blues master he really is. Recorded in an intimate setting the blues should be heard, this CD stands with the best live recordings of Albert King and Muddy Waters, not to mention containing the best recording of Ain't No Sunshine" ever made.