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The Definitive Collection

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Download links and information about The Definitive Collection by Bobby " Blue " Bland. This album was released in 2007 and it belongs to Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues genres. It contains 22 tracks with total duration of 01:02:49 minutes.

Artist: Bobby " Blue " Bland
Release date: 2007
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Tracks: 22
Duration: 01:02:49
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. I Smell Trouble (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:35
2. Farther Up the Road (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:56
3. Little Boy Blue (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:36
4. I'll Take Care of You (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:23
5. Lead Me On (Single Version) [Mono] (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:03
6. Cry, Cry, Cry (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:41
7. I Pity the Fool (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:40
8. Don't Cry No More (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:26
9. Who Will the Next Fool Be? (Single Version) [Stereo] (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:26
10. Stormy Monday Blues (Single Version) [Stereo] (featuring Bobby Bland) 4:07
11. Turn On Your Love Light (Single Version) [Stereo] (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:37
12. Yield Not to Temptation (Single Version) (featuring Joe Scott, Bobby Bland) 2:34
13. Call On Me (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:31
14. That's the Way Love Is (Single Version) [Stereo] (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:36
15. Ain't Nothing You Can Do (Single Version) [Stereo] (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:28
16. Share Your Love With Me (Single Version) (featuring Joe Scott, Bobby Bland) 2:41
17. Good Time Charlie, Pt. 1 (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:33
18. Poverty (Single Version) [Stereo] (featuring Bobby Bland) 2:07
19. Chains of Love (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 3:15
20. Ain't No Love In the Heart of the City (Single Version) (featuring Bobby Bland) 3:51
21. I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me) [Single Version] {Stereo} (featuring Bobby Bland) 3:16
22. Let the Good Times Roll (Live At Coconut Grove) [Single Version] (featuring B. B. King, Bobby Bland) 5:27

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Bobby "Blue" Bland is closing in on sixty years as a professional singer (he cut his first single way back in 1951), and while his technical singing range has shrunk with age, he has more than compensated for it with his elegant sense of phrasing and his intelligent use of appropriate melisma, a trait that any number of contemporary would-be R&B singers (who all too often seem to strangle the ends of melody lines rather than glide naturally through them) would do well to emulate. Starting out as a raw blues shouter, Bland instinctively understood the benefits of balance and refinement, and by the time of his first big hit, "Farther Up the Road," which he cut for Don Robey's Duke Records in 1957, he wasn't just shouting anymore but giving his material real emotional breathing room, and developing his gospel-informed crying style, which put the blue back in the blues. This excellent 22-track selection spans Bland's career, beginning with key sides from his long stay at Duke like "Farther Up the Road," "I Pity the Fool," "Who Will the Next Fool Be?" and his brilliant re-imagining of T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday Blues," which was a surprise hit for Bland in 1962, as well as his later hits for the ABC imprint Dunhill Records (Robey sold Duke Records to ABC in 1973 and Bland's contract was included in the deal), "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" and "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treat Me)," both from 1974. Generally presented as a blues singer, Bland is equally at home in the R&B, soul and gospel areas, and when presented with a good pop ballad, he knows exactly what to do with it. Truthfully, there's as much Perry Como in his musical DNA as there is T-Bone Walker, and the mix makes Bland a completely unique singer. The bottom line here is that Bland is a singer's singer, and he has never strangled the life out of a song in his life. That's how you last nearly sixty years in a business that is always looking for the next big thing.