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 ...
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 ...
JUSTIN FOX BURKS Bobby “Blue” Bland at last fall’s Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony. One of the key links on the road from blues to soul, Bobby “Blue” Bland, passed away yesterday, at age ...
“Blues music hasn’t really received the respect that it has deserved over the years, but that hasn’t stopped us,” legendary singer Bobby “Blue” Bland said Sunday night in a dressing room in the ...
His classic songs included "Turn On Your Love Light" and "Further On Up The Road." A contemporary of B.B. King, Bland was one of the last... Bobby 'Blue' Bland, The 'Sinatra Of The Blues,' Dies Bobby ...
(Reuters) - Bobby "Blue" Bland, a pioneer of the modern soul-blues sound, died on Sunday, according to Memphis media reports. He was 83. Local television stations cited the Memphis Music Foundation, ...