Robert Calvin Bland… Bobby “Blue” Bland
Tag Archives: R&B
“I play blues, sure, but don’t call me a bluesman …” – Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown
“Now it’s plain to see / You put a hurtin’ on me / But it’s a natural fact / I like it like that / So work out!” – “Mr. Excitement”… Jackie Wilson (Baby Work Out)
“At first you put your arms around me / Then you put your charms around me / I can’t resist this sweet surrender…” – Rufus & Chaka Khan (Ain’t Nobody)
Queen of Funk-Soul… Chaka Khan
“Put on yo’ high-heel shoes / I said, we goin’ down here / An listen to ‘em play the blues / We gonna, dig potatoes / We gonna, pick tomatoes / I said, shotgun…” – Jr. Walker & The All Stars (Shotgun)
“Well, it’s early in the morning when my love come falling down for you / Well, it’s early in the morning, baby, when my love come falling down for you / I want you to tell me, baby, tell me what are we gonna do…” -Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Last Night)
Paul Butterfield
“I’m gonna wait till the midnight hour / That’s when my love comes tumbling down / I’m gonna wait till the midnight hour / When there’s no one else around…” – Wilson Pickett (In The Midnight Hour)
“I shoulda quit you, long time ago / I shoulda quit you, baby, long time ago / I shoulda quit you, and went on to Mexico…” – Howlin’ Wolf (Killing Floor)
Legendary blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin
“I’ve got a mind to give up living / And go shopping instead / I’ve got a mind to give up living / And go shopping instead / Pick me up a tombstone/ And be pronounced dead…” -The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Mike Bloomfield
“I get a constant busy signal when I call you on the phone / I get a strong uneasy feeling you’re not sitting there alone / I’m having nasty nasty visions and baby, you’re in every one…” -Robert Cray (Smoking Gun)
“Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery / Make me a poster of an old rodeo / Just give me one thing / that I can hold on to / To believe in this livin’ is just a hard way to go” -Bonnie Raitt (Angel From Montgomery)
“And you smile, you smile / Oh, and then the spell was cast / And here we are in Heaven / For you are mine at last” -Etta James (At Last)
Rest in peace, Miss Etta James, at last the skies above are blue…
“When that evening’ sun goes down / Yeah you’ll find me hangin’ around / Because the night life / It ain’t no good life / But it’s my life, yeah…” -B.B. King (Night Life)
Night River
“This is a man’s world/ But it wouldn’t be nothing, Nothing, not one little thing/ Without a woman or a girl” -James Brown (It’s A Man’s Man’s World)
“Godfather of Soul”, “The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business” and “Mr. Dynamite”
“Over futile odds / And laughed at by the gods / And now the final frame…” -Amy Winehouse
“…Love is a losing game.”
Goodbye Amy.
