I Pity the Fool (1961) by Bobby "Blue" Bland
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Did Nina Simone ever cover this? She should have.
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Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland (January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), née Brooks, also known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B.[1] 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."[2] He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues";[3] his music was also influenced by Nat King Cole.[4] 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.[5] 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."
Listen to Bobby Bland and Watch True Detective
13 to go . Saw Bobby Live in london at Hammersmith odeon. With BB and John Lee Hooker. all sadly gone now.
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From 1961. One of his biggest hits. We are doing African-American culture and music in the 1960s this week on my Blues History Course.
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