JazzCorner on Instagram: "“I’ve always sung the blues like I felt it — not like I thought it should sound.” - Bobby “Blue” Bland aka The Lion of the Blues He came up in the same Beale Street circle as B.B. King, Junior Parker, and Johnny Ace — a crew that would help shape postwar electric blues. By the mid-1950s, his work with Duke Records, brought a new polish to the blues: gospel-influenced phrasing set against rich horn arrangements that leaned toward soul and R&B without losing the grit. Chu