{"id":22104,"date":"2013-06-24T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:57:58","slug":"legendary-bobby-blue-bland-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22104","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Bobby \u2018Blue\u2019 Bland Dead At 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They just don\u2019t make singers like him anymore.<\/p>\n<p>With vocals that were both guttural and gritty, yet sensual and sweet \u2014<strong> Bobby \u201cBlue\u201d Bland<\/strong> had pipes, and his distinct growl made him an icon in the blues genre.<\/p>\n<p>His storied career came to an end last weekend, when he passed away at the age of 83 due to complications from an ongoing illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bland <\/strong>was known as the \u201cSinatra of the Blues\u201d because of his super-suave persona and his flawless 1961 album <em>Two Steps From the Blues<\/em> is required listening for anyone who appreciates soul.<\/p>\n<p>The Rosemark, Tennessee-born singer was often overshadowed by his more famous contemporary, <strong>B.B. King<\/strong>. In fact when he was inducted into the Rock n\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, he was described as \u201csecond in stature only to <strong>B.B. King <\/strong>as a product of Memphis\u2019 Beale Street blues scene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They just don\u2019t make singers like him anymore. With vocals that were both guttural and gritty, yet sensual and sweet \u2014 Bobby \u201cBlue\u201d Bland had pipes, and his distinct growl made him an icon in the blues genre. His storied career came to an end last weekend, when he passed away at the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}