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 ...

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 ...

Bland's music is the kind that can school anyone about the incomprehensible depths of love, the importance of dignity and the promise of the kind... Remembering The Multidimensional Music Of Bobby ...