ABC of the Blues CD3 (2010)

CD3 - Bobby “Blue” Bland & Charles Brown

01 Bobby “Blue” Bland – It’s My Life, Baby
02 Bobby “Blue” Bland – Honey Bee
03 Bobby “Blue” Bland – Lost Lover Blues
04 Bobby “Blue” Bland – Time Out
05 Bobby “Blue” Bland – Million Miles from Nowhere
06 Bobby “Blue” Bland – You’ve Got Bad Intentions			play
07 Bobby “Blue” Bland – I Don’t Believe
08 Bobby “Blue” Bland – You Did Me Wrong
09 Bobby “Blue” Bland – Last Night
10 Bobby “Blue” Bland – Wise Man’s Blues
11 Charles Brown – Driftin’ Blues
12 Charles Brown – Trouble Blues							play
13 Charles Brown – In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
14 Charles Brown – Get Yourself Another Fool
15 Charles Brown – Black Night
16 Charles Brown – Hard Times
17 Charles Brown – Cryin’ Mercy
18 Charles Brown – Evening Shadows
19 Charles Brown – Fool’s Paradise
20 Charles Brown – Merry Christmas, Baby

Robert Calvin Bland (born January 27, 1930) better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of the Beale Streeters, and is 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.

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.

In 1985, Bland was signed by Malaco Records, specialists in traditional Southern black music for whom he made a series of albums while continuing to tour and appear at concerts with fellow blues singer B. B. King. The two had collaborated for two albums in the 1970s. Despite occasional age-related ill-health, Bland continues to record new albums for Malaco, perform occasional tours alone, with guitarist/producer Angelo Earl and also with B.B. King, plus appearances at blues and soul festivals worldwide.

Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison was an early adherent of Bland (he covered "Ain't Nothing You Can't Do" on his 1974 live album It's Too Late to Stop Now) and has on occasion had Bland as a guest singer at his concerts. He also included a previously unreleased version of a March 2000 duet of Morrison and Bland singing "Tupelo Honey" on his 2007 compilation album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3.

Charles Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999), born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s. He had several hit recordings, including "Driftin' Blues" and "Merry Christmas Baby".

In the late 1940s a rising demand for blues was driven by an increasing white teenage audience in the South which quickly spread north and west. Blues shouters got the attention, but also greatly influential was what writer Charles Keil dubs "the postwar Texas clean-up movement in blues" led by stylists such as T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn and Charles Brown. Their singing was lighter, more relaxed and they worked with bands and combos that had saxophone sections and used arrangements.

He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and received both the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship and the W. C. Handy Award.

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