His California Album in Bloomington, MN

And his first for
ABC-Dunhill
in 1973 after more than two decades with
Duke
(
Robey
's still represented, though, under his songwriting alias of
Deadric Malone
on four cuts, including the album's biggest hit,
"This Time I'm Gone for Good"
). Producer
Steve Barri
contemporized
Bland
by having him cover
Leon Russell
's
"Help Me Make It Through the Day,"
Luther Ingram
"(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right,"
and
Gladys Knight & the Pips
'
"I've Got to Use My Imagination."
~ Bill Dahl