Bobby Bland in 1964. Photograph: Michael Ochs
photo and quote below courtesy of The Guardian
“Blues and soul … I don’t see how you can define them. I think they are just one and the same. They are about facing the facts and seeing that things are as they are … If there is something that you can do about it, then you better try, and it if doesn’t work out then you had better just chalk it up to experience if it’s not in your favour. That’s what it’s all about. I find myself weighin’ things, because there’s always two sides to everything, two different approaches or whatever. It’s like havin’ a good woman. You got to cherish her, you got to try and see things how she sees them, and feel what she feels. I call that facin’ facts.”
Buddy Guy, BB King, and Bobby “Blue” Bland. (Photographer unknown)
Junior Parker, Elvis Presley, and Bobby “Blue” Bland
Bobby 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bland
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