Blues News: Turn On Your Love Light For Bobby "Blue" Bland
Bobby "Blue" Bland, legendary soul blues vocalist, turned 75 years old today. (Hat tip to Powerline):
I doubt anyone who has heard his silky voice slide from a croon to a wail while his horn section boils over will ever forget him. He brought a horn-driven orchestral approach to the blues that has been imitated but not surpassed.
Bland has had a great number of outstanding songs. For my money, "Turn On Your Love Light" remains the finest, although he's justifiably famous for "Stormy Monday Blues", "Cry Cry Cry", "I Pity the Fool", "Ain't That Lovin' You", and the classic opener he performed for many years with former Beale Street Singers bandmate B.B. King, "Let the Good Times Roll."
allmusic has this biography of the great bluesman. The picture by Michael Ochs below is from that wonderful site.
I doubt anyone who has heard his silky voice slide from a croon to a wail while his horn section boils over will ever forget him. He brought a horn-driven orchestral approach to the blues that has been imitated but not surpassed.
Bland has had a great number of outstanding songs. For my money, "Turn On Your Love Light" remains the finest, although he's justifiably famous for "Stormy Monday Blues", "Cry Cry Cry", "I Pity the Fool", "Ain't That Lovin' You", and the classic opener he performed for many years with former Beale Street Singers bandmate B.B. King, "Let the Good Times Roll."
allmusic has this biography of the great bluesman. The picture by Michael Ochs below is from that wonderful site.
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