First Class Blues (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Blues  »  Texas/W. Coast Blues
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• Release Date: March 21, 1996
• Label: Malaco
• UPC: 048021500024
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106673298
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #46714 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #987 in Blues (See Top 100 Blues Bestsellers)
• #47 in Texas/W. Coast Blues (See Top 100 Texas/W. Coast Blues Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Bobby "Blue" Bland (vocals); Dino Zimmerman, Jimmy Johnson, Larry Byrom, Jerry Puckett, Wayne Bennett, Rick Harvey, Jessie Robinson, Bernard Jenkins (guitar); Mickey Davis, Bob McNally, Claudette Hampton, Peggy Plucker, Janet Dressler, Steve Dressler, John Frantz, Brian Gum, Linda Geidel, Patrice Evans, Mark Hatch, Tim Mika (strings); Jim Horn (flute, horns); Sybil Cheesman (flute); Harrison Calloway, Ben Cauley, Harvey Thompson, Charles Rose, Ronnie Eades, Wayne Jackson (horns); Carson Whitsett (keyboards); Ray Griffin (bass); James Robertson (drums); Vince Barranco, Carmelo Garcia (percussion); Jewel Bass, Thomisene Anderson, Catherine Henderson, George Soule (background vocals).

Engineers: Wolf Stephenson, Tom Easley, Pete Green.

Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama; Malaco Studios, Jackson, Mississippi. Includes liner notes by Jeff Hannusch aka Almost Slim.

Digitally remastered by M.C. Rather (Custom Mastering, Nashville, Tennessee).

Although it isn't billed as such, this is a compilation of some of the best tracks from Bland's first two '80s albums for Malaco fleshed out with remakes of some of his most famous late-'50s and early-'60s hits. Of the latter, the standouts are probably "Two Steps From the Blues" and "St. James Infirmary." Bland can't quite hit the high notes the way he once did, but his voice is still attractive and his phrasing is, if anything, even better. The more recent material ranges from "Members Only," with its great retro-60s soul groove, to the straight-ahead blues of "Straight From the Shoulder."

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