Sad Street | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1995 | |||
Studio | Muscle Shoals Sound | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Label | Malaco[1] | |||
Producer | Wolf Stephenson, Tommy Couch | |||
Bobby "Blue" Bland chronology | ||||
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Sad Street is an album by the American musician Bobby "Blue" Bland.[2] It was released in 1995.[3]
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Blues Album".[4] It peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Blues Albums chart.[5]
Sad Street was produced by Wolf Stephenson and Tommy Couch.[6] It was recorded with the Muscle Shoals house band; string arrangements were done in Miami, Florida.[7][8] The title song was written by George Jackson, with many others provided by the songwriting partnership of Sam Mosley and Robert Johnson.[9]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
The Commercial Appeal | [11] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [12] |
MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide | [6] |
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide | [13] |
The Commercial Appeal opined that "Bland gets deep into the blues," writing that "'Double Trouble' deals with the age-old blues dilemma of dealing with a troublesome wife and girlfriend."[11] The Tampa Tribune thought that the album "perfectly captures his wistful romanticism and raspy-smooth vocals."[14]
Texas Monthly concluded that Malaco's "synthesizer-and-strings approach has kept him contemporary without making him sound foolish."[3] The San Antonio Express-News noted that "Sad Street find Bland still working a smooth, sophisticated, but unmistakably blues-driven, groove."[15]
AllMusic wrote that "Malaco's well-oiled, violin-enriched studio sound fit Bland's laid-back contemporary approach just fine (even if his voice admittedly wasn't what it used to be)."[10] MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide agreed that Bland's voice was "a ravaged hulk by this point."[6] The Sunday Times deemed Sad Street a "gritty" album that proved Bland's "Southern blues credentials."[16]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Double Trouble" | |
2. | "Sad Street" | |
3. | "God Bless the Child That's Got His Own" | |
4. | "Tonight's the Night (It's Gonna Be Alright)" | |
5. | "My Heart's Been Broken Again" | |
6. | "I've Got a Twenty Room House" | |
7. | "Mind Your Own Business" | |
8. | "I Wanna Tell You About the Blues" | |
9. | "I Had a Dream Last Night" | |
10. | "Let's Have Some Fun" |