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&feature=c4-overview&playnext=1&list=TLJ5s8OxLssBMBlues Legend Bobby Blue Bland Dies
Posted on: 7:49 pm, June 23, 2013, by Matt Peace, updated on: 09:39pm, June 23, 2013
(Memphis) The Memphis Music Foundation confirms well-known blues musician Bobby Blue Bland has died.
Bland got his start in the 1950?s and 60?s and would later perform with artists like Sam Cooke and Ray Charles.
He is best known for hits like Turn on Your Love Light, Thats the Way Love Is and I Pity the Fool.
Bland was born in Rosemark, TN but later moved to Memphis with his mother. He lived in Germantown at the time of his death.
He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame.
Jay Sieleman with the Blues Foundation called Bland the greatest blues singer in the world.
He was respected by so many people in the rock world and in the jazz world. Hes the Frank Sinatra of the blues. Hes respected for his voice and his phrasing. Its going to be a huge loss to blues music, Sieleman says.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.
nolabear
(42,073 posts)alfredo
(60,096 posts)livetohike
(22,248 posts)with T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker in Pittsburgh in 1974. It was T-Bone's final concert before his death.
solara
(3,844 posts)But I grew up listening to his music on the radio and lately I've been covering some of his songs. He was definitely an under appreciated blues great and will be missed.
livetohike
(22,248 posts)full of energy and he had a great voice . I love the blues.....wow, that was almost 40 years ago. He was 20 years younger then than I am now.
solara
(3,844 posts)Every Bobby Blue Bland YouTube I see is exciting and amazing. Too bad some brilliant artists have to die before their brilliance is recognized.
bluesbassman
(19,437 posts)We include "Further On Up The Road" in our setlist. Will have a little more meaning now...
solara
(3,844 posts)I hear ya.. He was sure something.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival; I was a frequent attendee when I still lived in CA.
RIP, Bobby
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Rest in peace, Bobby Blue Bland. Thanks for the music.