Artist: BLAND??BOBBY "LUE"</br>genre: Blues Music</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 5-JUN-2001</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Those who have gotten "blue" over Bobby's previous packages will thrill to this one?? the first to include all 25 of his Top 10 R&B hits: Farther up the Road; That's the Way Love Is; I Pity the Fool; Don't Cry No More; Turn On Your Love Light; I'll Take Care of You; Stormy Monday Blues; Call on Me ?? and more. 50 songs on 2 CDs-over 155 minutes from across his entire career!</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>Over the 1952-82 time-span covered here?? Bobby "e" Bland  united tough-as-pavement blues singing with heartbroken Southern R&B??  and helped to create chitlin-circuit soul as we know it now. Too raw  for most oldies radio?? Bland was a major presence in his time: 30 of  these 50 songs hit the pop charts?? and almost all of them were  significant R&B hits. The first disc-and-a-half documents his  long-running Duke Records collaboration (in Chicago?? Texas?? and Nashville)  with trumpeter Joe Scott?? who wrote ambitious arrangements that ran  from tender love-man pop to howling?? honking blues terrorism?? but  usually gave Bland a chance to emote harder than his microphone could  handle. The remainder finds Little Boy Blue on his own in L.A. in the  '70s?? spicing up smoother blues-inflected soul (and even a stab at  light disco?? "he Real Thing") with the famous squall in his  voice. <I>--Douglas Wolk</I></br>  and collect