toddlgreene
2598 posts
Feb 18, 2011
11:03 AM
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My band recently started playing Turn on Your Love Light by Bobby Bland, with me singing and playing the horn parts(3rd pos works perfectly). Not being real familiar with Bobby Bland, I looked him up on the interwebs. According to Wikipedia, he is also a harp player. Can anyone attest to this or provide examples?
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Joe_L
1075 posts
Feb 18, 2011
11:23 AM
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I've never heard him play harp, but it wouldn't surprise me. Bobby Bland is a very soulful singer. He's worth listening to.
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barbequebob
1557 posts
Feb 18, 2011
11:26 AM
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He was never a harp player but did have harp on some cuts on a more country oriented LP from the 70`s. Turn On Your Lovelight is an easy tune on harp and I`ve played it in 2nd and know all the horn & some of the guitar parts (played by either Earl Holliman or Wayne Bennett) by heart. Cotton did a smoking version of this with some 2nd position harp on his 1st LP on Verve in the late 60`s and when he was still able to sing, this was a staple at his shows.
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Joe_L
1080 posts
Feb 18, 2011
1:35 PM
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Bob - Do you mean Clarence Holliman or Earl Holliman from the old Police Woman TV show with Angie Dickinson? ;)
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ReedSqueal
94 posts
Feb 18, 2011
2:14 PM
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I recall seeing Bobby Bland at a Blues Festival in San Francisco back in 1986? or so. I don't recall if he played harp. Well, actually there isn't much I remember about that day. lol. Although I do remember a very unique (trademark?) that Bobby did... He incorporated a snorting or snore in his singing. Strangely cool.
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barbequebob
1558 posts
Feb 18, 2011
4:39 PM
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@JoeL--- Clarence Holliman. Good catch! lol
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joeleebush
205 posts
Feb 18, 2011
5:05 PM
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After Bobby Blue Bland and Little Junior Parker came out on that Duke LP "Blues Consolidated" in the late 50's I think it was... around 1960 or 1961 they came through here and worked a place called The Walluhaje Ballroom. (I dont think Love Light had been cut then). I may have the dates wrong...but I am close.
Little Junior played a lot of harmonica behind Bland on that show,(did some great harp on "I smell trouble" for Bland), but Bland himself couldn't play "oh susyanna".
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sydeman
32 posts
Feb 18, 2011
8:44 PM
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@ReedSqueal
About all I remember is the year was 1988 and Bland played no harp. JL Hooker...Ron Thompson..Koko Taylor also on the bill that year
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