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Media Type: CD
Artist: BLAND,BOBBY BLUE
Title: TWO STEPS FROM THE BLUES
Street Release Date: 02/27/2001
Domestic
Genre: BLUES

Track Listing

1. Two Steps From the Blues
2. Cry Cry Cry
3. I'm Not Ashamed
4. Don't Cry No More
5. Lead Me On
6. I Pity the Fool
7. I've Just Got to Forget You
8. Little Boy Blue
9. St. James Infirmary
10. I'll Take Care of You
11. I Don't Want No Woman
12. I've Been Wrong So Long
13. How Does a Cheatin' Woman Feel [*]
14. Close to You [*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63231 in Music
• Brand: BLAND,BOBBY BLUE
• Released on: 2001-02-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.com
Bobby Bland could both comfort and chill, sometimes in the same song. He does so on this undeniably classic album's "Lead Me On," which begins with the line "You know how it feels, you understand / What it is to be a stranger in this unfriendly land" and ends softly two minutes later with the promise "I'll follow you." Such drama, coupled with a mellow soulfulness, is the norm on Two Steps. Bland has been called "the Sinatra of the blues" more than once, and this album is the best explanation ever for that appellation. --Rickey Wright

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Originally issued in 1961, this sublime album has Bland merging precise and eloquent vocals with an exceptional musical imagination on "I Pity the Fool," "Don't Cry No More," and nine more enthralling songs. Sympathetic producer Joe Scott never lets the brass section hinder the upsurge of Bland's phrases. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Customer Reviews

The Real Deal....
Here's an album anyone looking for great music should own. Has to be as good as any soul or blues album in the 1960's. Not dance music. Slow, simmering, deep but smoothe music from the human heart, and the crisp accompaniment of Bland's backing musicians is stellar and just punctuates the performances perfectly. The arranger and producer need some credits here, too, even though Bland and his band get first dibs on kudos. This is definitive Bobby "Blue" Bland. Make it your first purchase. Cream of the crop stuff. My favorite is "Lead Me On", a recording of haunting beauty. When his voice was in his prime and good form, this is a relief for those having purchased too many albums that overpromise. This one delivers in spades (sic). You won't feeled gipped here; that won't even occur to you. For the newcomer to the blues and the connoisseur of great records alike. A treat of a great set of performances par excellence, and what songs too! A tour-de-force, to use a term we seldom use anymore, because they hardly make great records like this anymore.

THE FULL RANGE OF EMOTIONS COMES THROUGH LOUD AND CLEAR !!!!
In high school in Louisiana in 1961 this was our favorite album. The high scool was all white (segregation) but we all loved rhythmn and blues. Bo Didley palayed at our senior dance. Bobby Bluesboy Bland was the greatest of the singers with a voice with unbelievable range. I saw him in 1997 and his voice was still in remarkbly good shape. Two Steps from the Blues is a great album and is definitely unappreciated or should I say under appreciated because if you listen you have to love. Bill Johnson

Classic album.
Bobby Bland is one of my favourite singers for decades, and on its initial release this album set new standards for R&B singers. Almost every track on this CD is a classic of the genre: "I pity the fool" and "St James Infirmary" could almost be described as "classic classics" they were so definitive at the time. It was such an advance for a blues singer that one reviewer then described it as "two million steps from the blues". Bland went on to become one of the most highly regarded R&B singers of his generation, influencing the singing style of later singers like Tyrone Davis.