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 ...

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 ...

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 ...