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Robert Calvin Bland (born Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. [2] He was described as "among the great storytellers of blues and soul music...
Name Age Date Location Cause of death Patti Page: 85: January 1, 2013: Encinitas, California, U.S.: Heart and lung disease [1]: Sammy Johns: 66: January 4, 2013 ...
Cotton's band included a horn section, like that of Bobby Bland's. After Bland's death, his son told news media that Bland had recently discovered that Cotton was his half-brother. [7] Cotton at Jeff Healey's blues nightclub in Toronto. In the 1970s, Cotton recorded several albums for Buddah Records.
Years of Tears is an album by the American musician Bobby "Blue" Bland, released in 1993. [1] [2] Bland supported the album with a North American tour. [3] The album peaked at No. 80 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart. [4] It won a W. C. Handy Award, in the Soul/Blues category. [5]
Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...
Garrison Brown’s official cause of death has been revealed by the coroner. Brown died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to an autopsy report obtained by People on Wednesday, May 15. His ...
The results of Bobby Brown’s son Bobby Brown Jr.’s autopsy were revealed on Monday, March 22, four months after the 28-year-old’s death. Celebrity Deaths in 2021 Read article Bobby Jr. died ...
[2] Billboard called Here's the Man! a "fine album ... which shows off [Bland's] stylish vocal treatments." [9] In an appreciation published after Bland's death, Texas Monthly wrote: "Blues could be orchestral, blues could be lush, blues could sound as urbane as it wanted to sound." [8] The album was a 2024 inductee to the Blues Hall of Fame. [10]