His California Album

by Bobby Blue Bland

His California Album cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Dunhill
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:54
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Leaving his long-time home at Duke Records, the legendary blues crooner teamed up with producer Steve Barri in Los Angeles for this incredibly lush, highly orchestrated outing. The arrangements successfully modernize Bland's signature sound, wrapping his smooth, emotive baritone in sweeping strings and tight, funk-inflected rhythm tracks provided by elite session musicians. It proved to be a major commercial triumph, brilliantly updating traditional soul-blues for the 1970s adult contemporary market.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, bluesy, vocal, ballad, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. This Time I'm Gone For Good (3:32)
  2. Up And Down World (3:33)
  3. It's Not The Spotlight (3:52)
  4. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (3:50)
  5. Goin' Down Slow (5:35)
  6. The Right Place At The Right Time (2:55)
  7. Help Me Through The Day (3:50)
  8. Where Baby Went (3:19)
  9. Friday The 13th Child (3:14)
  10. I've Got To Use My Imagination (4:14)

Credits

  • Bobby Blue Bland - primary artist
  • Ginger Blake - backing vocals
  • Julia Tillman Waters - backing vocals
  • Maxine Willard Waters - backing vocals
  • Max Bennett - bass
  • Wilton Felder - bass
  • Michael Omartian - conductor, arranged by, piano, organ
  • Ed Greene - drums

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