Bobby Bland
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robert Calvin Bland, The Lion of the Blues
American soul & blues musician (1930–2013)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Unchain My Heart (Roots of Rhythm) (Roots of Rhythm)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1930-01-27
- Active to
- 2013-06-23
Discography
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Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Brooks, January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013) was an American rhythm & blues singer. Bland's craft was most clearly heard on a series of early 1960s releases, including "Cry Cry Cry", "I Pity the Fool" (number 1 on the R&B chart in 1961) and "Turn On Your Love Light", all included on the 1961 album "Two Steps From The Blues". Bobby Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981 <a href="http
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT
· 1986 · cited 37,932x
- Measuring agreement in method comparison studies
· 1999 · cited 5,825x
- Statistics notes: Cronbach's alpha: Table 1
· 1997 · cited 3,897x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,669x
- Multiple significance tests: the Bonferroni method
· 1995 · cited 3,204x
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Bobby "Blue" Bland, Lion of the Blues , Sinatra of the Blues
- Born
- Robert Calvin Brooks , ( 1930-01-27 ) January 27, 1930, Barretville, Tennessee , U.S.
- Died
- June 23, 2013 (2013-06-23) (aged 83), Germantown, Tennessee , U.S.
- Genres
- Blues soul blues R&B soul
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter arranger bandleader
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Labels
- Duke ABC MCA Malaco
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Encyclopedic overview
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. He was described as "among the great storytellers of blues and soul music... [who] created tempestuous arias of love, betrayal and resignation, set against roiling, dramatic orchestrations, and left the listener drained but awed." The inspiration behind his unique style was a Detroit Preacher, CL Franklin, because Bland studied his sermons. He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues". His music was influenced by Nat King Cole.
Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2012. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Bland at number 163 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bobby Bland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.