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Live on Beale Street

Bobby "Blue" Bland
1 disc

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: Double Trouble / She's Puttin' Somethin' In My Food
18. Members Only
19. 24 Hours a Day
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 7489
Credits

Producer Wolf Stephenson; Paul Christensen
Engineer Julie Haldeman; Steve Lowney
Personnel includes: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Bobby Rush, Johnnie Taylor (vocals); Ray Neal (guitar); Joe Hardin, Stan Abernathy, Al Thomas, Morris Atchison (horns); Carson Whitsett (keyboards); Reggie Richards (bass); George Weaver (drums); Rod Bland (drums, percussion).
Recorded live at the New Daisy Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Recorded live at the Omni, Memphis, Tennessee on April 11, 1996.
Personnel: Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Rush (vocals); Ray Neal (guitar); Stanley Abernathy, Joseph Hardin, Morris Atchison, Al Thomas (horns); Carson Whitsett (keyboards); Rod Bland (drums, percussion); George Weaver (drums).
Audio Remixers: Kent Bruce ; Wolf Stephenson.
Recording information: Beale Street, New Daisy Theater; New Daisy Theater.
Photographer: Ronnie Stoots.
Bland was a member (along with B. B. King) of the legendary early-'50s blues commune the Beale Streeters, so this excellent late-'90s live album is something of a homecoming for the man described herein by the M.C. as the World's Greatest Blues Singer. Backed by an excellent big band, Bland runs through a nicely chosen program of his early hits--blues classics like "Farther On Up the Road," "St. James Infirmary," and "I Pity the Fool"--plus some of his more recent material, including the ultimate paranoid blues "She's Putting Something In My Food." He also delivers an impassioned cover of Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine" that almost surpasses the original, and then goes mano a mano with fellow Memphians Bobby Rush and Johnny Taylor on a definitive "Stormy Monday."