Description
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."
- Format: CD
- Genre: Blues
- Released: 1998-03-10