Evil Gal Blues

What A Diff'rence A Day Made

Aretha Franklin -Call Me

11 track live in a day session at Skinny Mammouth Studio's, Isle of Wight

Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown

Don't Mess Up A Good Thing	2:56 Fontella Bass Rescued: The Best Of Fontella Bass		


Don't Mess Up A Good Thing - Fontella Bass Written and Produced by Billy Davis

Rescue Me	2:55	Fontella Bass	Rescued: The Best Of Fontella Bass	


Rescue Me - Fontella Bass Written and Produced by Billy Davis

Lauren Owsley singing "At Last" by Etta James.

At Last - Etta James

Etta James — Don't Cry Baby

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

Grammy Nominee | Best Album Notes | Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles | Billy Vera, album notes writer (Ray Charles) | Concord

Georgia On My Mind | Ray Charles

Bobby "Blue" Bland, the debonair balladeer whose sophisticated, emotionally fraught performances helped modernize the blues, died on Sunday at his home in Germantown, Tenn., a suburb of Memphis. He was 83. 

Bobby was an original member of the Beale Streeters, and was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues". Along with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Junior Parker, Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. An imitator of Frank Sinatra, he was also known as the "Sinatra of the blues"; his music was also influenced by Nat King Cole.

Mr. Bland’s synthesis of Southern vernacular music and classy big-band arrangements made him a stylistic pioneer, but whatever he accomplished by way of formal innovation ultimately derived from his underlying faith in the emotional power of the blues. 

“I’d like to be remembered as just a good old country boy that did his best to give us something to listen to and help them through a lot of sad moments, happy moments, whatever,” he said in a 2009 interview with the syndicated “House of Blues Radio Hour.” 

“Whatever moments you get of happiness, use it up, you know, if you can, because it don’t come that often.” 

Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

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