Two Steps From The Blues

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2001

Labels: MCA Records, Duke

℗©2001 MCA Records

Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 14 recorded at Chicago, IL, on November 12, 1960.
Tracks 2, 12 and 13 recorded at Chicago, IL, on August 3, 1960.
Tracks 3 and 8 recorded at Houston, TX, January, 1958.
Tracks 5 and 10 recorded at Houston, TX, on June 25, 1959.
Track 11 recorded at Houston, TX, on March 12, 1956 or early 1957.
(Personnel probably)

Track 2 also issued as Duke single 327 Bobby Bland - Cry Cry Cry / I've Been Wrong So Long
Track 3 also issued as Duke single 303 Bobby Bland - I'm Not Ashamed / Wishing Well
Track 4 also issued as Duke single 336 Bobby Bland - How Does A Cheating Woman Feel
Track 5 also issued as Duke single 318 Bobby Bland - Lead Me On / Hold Me Tenderly
Track 6 also issued as Duke single 332 Bobby Bland - I Pity The Fool
Track 8 also issued as Duke single 196 Bobby Bland - Little Boy Blue / Last Night
Track 9 also issued as Duke single 340 Bobby Bland - Don't Cry No More / Saint James Infirmary
Track 10 also issued as Duke single 314 Bobby Bland - I'll Take Care Of You / That's Why
Track 11 also issued as Duke single 167 Bobby Bland - I Smell Trouble / Don't Want No Woman
Track 12 also issued as Duke single 327 Bobby Bland - Cry Cry Cry / I've Been Wrong So Long

Originally released in 1961 under the Duke label. Logo on spine and disc is Duke/Peacock.

Tracks 13 and 14 are CD re-issue bonus tracks.
Track 13 originally issued as Duke single 352 Bobby Bland - How Does A Cheating Woman Feel
Track 14 originally issued as Duke single 332 Bobby Bland - I Pity The Fool

Reissue Design: Mike Fink @ilevel

Session information culled from "Duke-Peacock-Backbeat Artist & Title File, 1952-1969" ledger and "Blues Records, 1943 to 1970/A Selective Discography" by Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven
Originally Duke LP 74 Bobby Bland - Two Steps From The Blues

Durations not listed on release.