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Bobby Bland — Home Recording Clips
Rare home recording footage of Bobby Bland, curated from across the internet. Browse 1 clip below.
About Home Recording Footage
Home recordings are windows into the most private moments of the creative process — demos recorded in bedrooms, four-track experiments, and early versions of songs that would later be transformed by professional studios. These clips capture the spark before the polish.
About Bobby Bland
American blues and R&B singer. Born January 27, 1930, Rosemark, Tennessee, USA. Died June 23, 2013, Germantown, Tennessee, USA. He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues". In 1947, he moved to Memphis with his mother and started singing with local gospel groups there, including amongst others The Miniatures. Eager to expand his interests, he began fr...
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