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LP Bobby Bland  Two Steps from the Blues c1961 Original  Duke DLP 74  The vinyl is in EXCELLENT condition. Plays great. You will not be disappointed. The cover is in very good plus condition showing some edge wear. If you have some time scroll down and read the great review of this album.

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RECORD GRADING SYSTEM 
* STILL SEALED - Still sealed in factory shrink wrap.
* NEAR MINT - Shows no signs of wear, probably only played a couple of times.
* EXCELLENT - Very clean, possibly shows the slightest of wear.
* VERY GOOD PLUS - Not quite excellent but a little better than very good.
* VERY GOOD - Shows average wear, light scratches, tracks will experience some sporadic surface noise. The cover or label might have a name ID label or markings and there might be some cover edge splitting or ring impression wear.
* GOOD - The cover or record shows considerable wear. Some tracks might have loud surface noise and a possible skip or hang up.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Without a doubt, Two Steps from the Blues is the definitive Bobby "Blue" Bland album and one of the great records in electric blues and soul-blues. In fact, it's one of the key albums in modern blues, marking a turning point when juke joint blues were seamlessly blended with gospel and Southern soul, creating a distinctly Southern sound where all of these styles blended so thoroughly it was impossible to tell where one began and one ended. Given his Memphis background, Bobby "Blue" Bland was perfectly suited for this kind of amalgam as envisioned by producer/arranger Joe Scott, who crafted these wailing horn arrangements that sounded as impassioned as Bland's full-throated, anguished vocals. It helped, of course, that the songs were uniformly brilliant. Primarily from the pen of Deadric Malone, along with Duke head Don Robey and Scott (among others), these are the tunes that form the core of Bobby "Blue" Bland's legend and the foundation of soul-blues: "Two Steps from the Blues," "I Don't Want No Woman," "Cry, Cry, Cry," "I'm Not Ashamed," "Lead Me On," "Little Boy Blue" -- songs so good they overshadow standards like "St. James Infirmary." These are songs that blur the division between Ray Charles soul and Chess blues, opening the doors for numerous soul and blues sounds, from Muscle Shoals and Stax through the modern-day soul-bluesman. Since this, like many blues albums from the late '50s/early '60s, was a collection of singles, it's possible to find the key tracks, even the entire album, on the numerous Bobby "Blue" Bland collections released over the years, but this remains an excellent, essential blues album on its own terms -- one of the greatest ever released.