| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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" |
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