Da Bobby „Blue“ Bland, amtli: Robert Calvin Bland (* 27. Jenna 1930 z Rosemark, Tennessee; † 23. Juni 2013 z Memphis, Tennessee) woar a amerikanischa Blues- und Soulsenga.

Bobby Bland, 1996

1981 is a in de Blues Hall of Fame afgnumma worn, 1992 in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[1]. Ba da Valeihung vo de Grammy Awards 1997 hod a an Grammy fia sei Lebmsweak griagt.

Da Mick Hucknall (Senga und Chef vo da Gruppm Simply Red) hod im Fruahjoar 2008 die Solo-CD „Hucknall: Tribute to Bobby“ mit Liadan vom Bobby Bland vaeffentlicht.[2]

Diskografie

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  • mit den Beale Streeters

1951 Booted / I Love You Til The Day I Die
1952 Crying All Night Long / Dry Up Baby

  • Bobby Bland (alle Duke Records)

1956 I Learned My Lesson / I Don't Believe
1957 Don't Want No Woman / I Smell Trouble
1957 Farther Up The Road / Sometime Tomorrow
1957 Teach Me (How To Love You) / Bobby's Blues
1958 You Got Me Where You Want Me / Loan A Helping Hand
1958 Little Boy Blue / Last Night

  • Bobby "Blue" Bland & Ike Turner And His Orchestra

1962 Love You Baby / Drifting

  • Bobby Bland und B. B. King

1976 Let The Good Times Roll / Strange Things Happening
Evayday I Have The Blues / The Thrill Is Gone

  • 1958 Blues Consolidated
  • 1960 Like Er Red Hot
  • 1961 Two Steps from the Blues
  • 1963 Bobby Bland-Jimmy Soul-Johnny Watson
  • 1963 Call on Me
  • 1966 The Soul of the Man
  • 1969 A Piece of Gold
  • 1969 Here's the Man!
  • 1969 Spotlighting the Man
  • 1970 If Loving You Is Wrong
  • 1973 His California Album
  • 1974 Dreamer
  • 1975 Get on Down with Bobby Bland
  • 1977 Reflections in Blue
  • 1978 Come Fly with Me
  • 1979 I Feel Good, I Feel Fine
  • 1980 Sweet Vibrations
  • 1981 Try Me, I'm Real
  • 1982 Here We Go Again
  • 1983 Foolin' with the Blues
  • 1983 Tell Mr. Bland
  • 1985 Blues in the Night
  • 1985 Members Only
  • 1986 After All
  • 1987 Blues You Can Use
  • 1987 First Class Blues
  • 1989 Midnight Run
  • 1990 You've Got Me Loving You
  • 1991 Portrait of the Blues
  • 1993 Year's of Tears
  • 1994 Long Beach 1983 [live]
  • 1995 Really the Blues
  • 1995 Sad Street
  • 1998 Just One More Step
  • 1998 Live on Beale Street
  • 1998 Not Ashamed to Sing the Blues
  • 1998 Memphis Monday Morning
  • 2003 Blues at Midnight [live]
  • Angels in Houston
  • Brothers of Soul Early Year's Collection

Literatua

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  • Charles Farley: Soul Of The Man. Bobby „Blue“ Bland (Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 2011) ISBN 978-1-60473-919-0
  • Siegfried Schmidt-Joos und Wolf Kampmann: Rock-Lexikon. rororo-Valag, Reinbek 2008 ISBN 978-3-499-62133-8 (Seite 182f)
  • Stambler, Irwin: The Encyclopedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul. 3. überarbeitete Auflage, New York City, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989, S., 59f – ISBN 0-312-02573-4

Im Netz

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  1. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame@1@2Vorlage:Toter Link/www.rockhall.com (Seite nicht mehr abrufbar; Suche in Webarchiven) Bobby Bland in der Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  2. „Den können Sie ewig lagern!“ Der Simply-Red-Sänger Mick Hucknall über […] sein Idol Bobby „Blue“ Bland. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14. Juli 2008, Online.