Two Steps from the Blues

Two Steps from the Blues is the debut album by American blues singer Bobby Bland, in 1961. It compiles five songs recorded between 1956 and 1960 and seven songs recorded in two sessions from August 3 to November 12, 1960. The sessions took place at Universal Recording Corporation in Chicago, where Bland and his backing band moved after a series of successful singles and albums. The backing band was composed of Joe Scott and Melvin Jackson, Pluma Davis, Robert Skinner and L. A. Hill, Rayfield Devers, Teddy Reynolds, Clarence Holloman, Wayne Bennett, Hamp Simmons, and John "Jabo" Starks. Scott also served as an arranger. The album was critically and commercially successful. It produced two singles, "I Pity The Fool" and "Don't Cry No More", which charted at number 1 and 2 on the Billboard R&B chart, respectively. Two Steps from the Blues was ranked at number 217 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Ste...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)