Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland
July 2, 2013
Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland is dead
GRENADA, Miss (AP) — Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, a distinguished singer who blended Southern blues and soul in songs such as Turn on Your Love Light and Further On Up the Road, died Sunday. He was 83.
Rodd Bland said his father died due to complications from an ongoing illness at his Memphis, Tenn, home. He was surrounded by relatives.
Bland was known as the “the Sinatra of the blues” and was heavily influenced by Nat King Cole.
