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 ...

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 ...

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 is anything but. He doesn’t play soul-rending slide guitar; he doesn’t wail away on the blues harp; he doesn’t even play an instrument. All he has is his voice, but that voice is ...

Blues icon Bobby "Blue" Bland has died Sunday at his Memphis home from complications from an ongoing illness, his son, Rodd confirmed. He was 83. Bland is best known for his particular intermingling ...

One of the finest voices the blues has known, Bobby “Blue” Bland died last Sunday at age 83. Sometimes called the Sinatra of the blues, Bland projected a similar class and elegance even when getting ...

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, 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 ...

“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, ...

Bland's son Rodd said his father died about 5:30 p.m. Sunday at his Memphis home surrounded by relatives. His son said he died from complications from an ongoing illness. Since 2008, Bland had been ...