Bobby “Blue” Bland is The Man. There’s no other way to think about the singer. Though he passed away last Sunday at 83, for me Bland will live forever. He came into my life when I was young, and for ...

If the blues ever had its version of Frank Sinatra — at least in terms of an almost instinctual appeal to the opposite sex — it would be Bobby “Blue” Bland. He never fussed around much with concept ...

Bobby had prevailed and his dream had finally come true. He was at last a star. On the strength of the number one hit "Farther Up the Road" in 1957, "Little Boy Blue" in 1958, and three big hits in ...

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 ...

When you put a voice to uptown blues, the voice belongs to Bobby "Blue" Bland. For more than four decades, the Tennessee-bred, Texas-tempered singer, whose vocal style has had a lasting impact on ...

Bobby "Blue" Bland, a colossal figure in R&B and the blues, died Sunday in Memphis, Tenn., at age 83. His son told the Associated Press that Bland died of complications from an "ongoing illness." In a ...

Jimi Hendrix once described the blues as "easy to play, but hard to feel;" Bobby "Blue" Bland made the blues as complex as a modernist novel, and effortlessly easy to feel. Bland may not have been the ...

Bobby “Blue” Bland, a distinguished singer who blended Southern blues and soul in songs such as “Turn on Your Love Light” and “Further On Up the Road,” died Sunday. He was 83. Rodd Bland said his ...

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2012, file photo, Bobby “Blue” Bland, center, is honored with a standing ovation as he is named as an inductee to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame during a ceremony at The ...

Bobby “Blue” Bland, the blues and soul singer of songs such as “Further on Up the Road” and “Turn on Your Love Light,” died yesterday in Memphis. He was 83. According to Bland’s son, the blues singer ...

GRENADA, Miss. (AP) -- Bobby "Blue" Bland, a distinguished singer who blended Southern blues and soul in songs such as "Turn on Your Love Light" and "Further On Up the Road," died Sunday. He was 83.