Two Steps from the Blues | 
| Artist: Bobby "blue" Bland
Label: Mca
Category: Music
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 40966
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 008811251628
UPC: 008811251628
EAN: 0008811251628
ASIN: B000059T1U
Release Date: February 27, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Two Steps From the Blues | | • | Cry Cry Cry | | • | I'm Not Ashamed - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Scott, Joseph | | • | Don't Cry No More | | • | Lead Me On | | • | I Pity the Fool | | • | I've Just Got to Forget You | | • | Little Boy Blue - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Harper, LaCharles | | • | St. James Infirmary - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Primrose, Joe | | • | I'll Take Care of You - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Benton, Brook | | • | I Don't Want No Woman - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Robey, Don | | • | I've Been Wrong So Long - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Agee, Ray | | • | How Does a Cheatin' Woman Feel - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Smith, Clifton | | • | Close to You |
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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
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
The Real Deal.... January 8, 2002
tomfrompennsylvania (Greater Philadelphia)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
LOVE this record April 23, 2004
kevnm (Costa Mesa, CA United States)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
These raves are all right on the mark - this is transcendent. Funny thing is, it kind of took me awhile to get it. I liked, but never loved, my lp, but a year or two after getting the cd it all clicked into place. I think sometimes exceptionally profound music takes a while to sink in. I'm sure glad I stuck with this, and trusted all the folks who said it was a classic. It's now a treasured favorite.
THE FULL RANGE OF EMOTIONS COMES THROUGH LOUD AND CLEAR !!!! August 31, 1999
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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
Brace yourself! November 21, 2003
thestaxman (Jackson, MS United States)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Good God almighty! If you have any affinity for any kind of music, buy this album! The effect this astonishing collection of singles had is still felt more than forty years after its initial release. The songs are simply stunning, and Bland's voice is truly phenomenal. Any singer who ever belted out a single note OWES Bobby "Blue" Bland. For those who have heard nothing but the man's latter day work with Malaco, this is nothing short of a revelation. This was one of the most amazing voices on God's green earth. He's somehow like a cross between Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, and Brook Benton, but with the strength of all three combined. Listening to this will make you realize how right B.B. King was when he said, "Me and Little Milton, we did alright, but NOBODY could move a crowd like Bobby Bland."My only complaint is that these songs and the album itself are over far too early. Some of the songs barely make it over two minutes, but that was how they were done in those days. But I can't stress the greatness of this album and the magnitude of its impact enough. Along with James Brown's Live At the Apollo, this is arguably the most important and influential Soul album of all time.
 Classic album. May 20, 2004
P. Bailey (UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
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