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Artist | Gary U.S. Bonds
Title | Dedication / On The Line
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 83:09
Label | BGO Records Store | 2009
Catalog | BGOCD852 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 254 kbps Size | 158.74 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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CD 1/2
01. Jole Blon 3:26
02. This Little Girl 3:44
03. Your Love 3:29
04. Dedication 3:11
05. Daddy's Come Home 6:26
06. It's Only Love 3:05
07. The Pretender 6:13
08. Way Back When 4:03
09. From A Buick 6 4:28
10. Just Like A Child 3:45
CD 2/2
01. Hold On (To What You Got) 3:08
02. Out Of Work 2:58
03. Club Soul City 3:42
04. Soul Deep 3:22
05. Loves On The Line 3:45
06. Turn The Music Down 3:42
07. Rendezvouz 2:42
08. Angelyne 4:07
09. All I Need 5:16
10. Bring Her Back 3:49
11. Last Time 4:48
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After moving to the Norfolk, VA, area in the mid-'50s, young Gary Anderson
began plying his vocal wares, first in church, later with a local group
called the Turks. When he was not yet 21, he was approached by local record
producer Frank Guida to join his tiny Legrand label. Guida changed
Anderson's name to U.S. Bonds, hoping the first release would get extra
airplay by disc jockeys mistaking it for a public-service announcement. The
result was the classic "New Orleans", combining rock-combo raunch with
impassioned, scorched soul-singing that set the stage for all that would
follow.
Guida double- and triple-tracked Bonds' voice and the resulting murky
production gave all the hits (including 'Quarter To Three', 'School Is
Out', and 'Dear Lady Twist') a party-in-outer-space quality all their own.
Though he kept recording, making a couple of excellent solo albums in the
early '80s with the help of Bruce Springsteen, Bonds is best seen today
dotting the landscape of oldies shows the world over, singing the songs
that made him famous.
Gary U.S. Bonds had been lurking on the fringes of the oldies circuit for
the better part of twenty years when Bruce Springsteen gave the guy a
well-earned break and co-produced 1981's Dedication, which doubtless
represented a bit of payback after Springsteen had been playing Bonds' 1961
hit "Quarter to Three" on-stage for close to a decade. Anyone who thought
of this an act of charity on Springsteen's part got a pleasant surprise
after listening to the album; the years had turned Bonds into a mature and
forceful soul shouter, and he was more than capable of making something of
the material given to him.
Springsteen's presence is audible on "Jole Blon" and the title cut,
but Bonds sounds equally impressive (if not more so) when he gets the stage
all to himself on "This Little Girl," "Way Back When" and a cover of the
Beatles' "It's Only Love," while Steven Van Zandt's "Daddy's Come Home" is
a soul maven's masterstroke. "Dedication" leads off this two-fer remaster
from Beat Goes On Records, and while Bonds' 1982 follow-up "On The Line"
didn't sell nearly as well, played back to back it becomes evident that On
the Line is actually the stronger album. Unlike "Dedication", "On The Line"
had the same production team for all 11 tunes (Springsteen and Van Zandt),
and Springsteen wrote the lion's share of the album, giving it a more
consistent tone and voice.
And Bonds is in even better form here than on "Dedication"; he sounds as if
he's out to prove that the strength of his comeback album was no fluke, and
on tunes like "Out Of Work", "Love's On The Line" and "Club Soul City"
(which features a vocal cameo from Chuck Jackson), he delivers some of the
finest work of his career. This is an excellent collection of music from a
man who deserves better than to be remembered as a novelty act or some
superstar's pet project.
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