Bland's music is the kind that can school anyone about the incomprehensible depths of love, the importance of dignity and the promise of the kind... Remembering The Multidimensional Music Of Bobby ...
There ain’t but a few left. The Post-War generation of great blues musicians, the men and women who brought a rural music into the American city and then to the world is slipping away, Now we’ve lost ...
Bobby “Blue” Bland, singer of such hits as Turn On Your Love Light and That’s The Way Love Is, died Sunday evening at the age of 83. Bland died at his home in Germantown, Tenn., on June 23. No ...
St. Louis-native Shirley Brown and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Bobby Womack and Bobby “Blue” Bland headline the 8th Annual St. Louis Blues Festival at Chaifetz Arena at Saint Louis University on ...
Bobby “Blue” Bland talked with The Plain Dealer in 2009 to promote his appearance at the Cleveland Blues Festival. He was 79 at the time.. And he was singing the blues about singing the blues. “Nobody ...
The “Turn on Your Love Light” and “Further On Up the Road” crooner suffered from an ongoing illness. By Sophie Schillaci Bobby Blue Bland - P 2013 Bobby “Blue” Bland, known as the “Sinatra of the ...
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On Friday morning several hundred blues fans gathered in downtown Memphis for a dedication ceremony celebrating a new statue honoring late R&B legend, Bobby “Blue” Bland. Dignities from the music ...
Bobby "Blue" Bland was known as the Frank Sinatra of the blues. He smoothed out Southern soul with the elegance of jazz and big-band music, sparked it with elements of country and pop, and influenced ...