"Bobby "Blue" Bland was simply the best soul singer that too many people have never heard of, and if he was technically a blues singer, even his uptown approach to the blues was closer to jazz than it was to the growling country blues template most people were familiar with, so even in the blues community he often went overlooked. The man could simply sing, his voice a combination of Ray Charles and James Brown, always passionate, intense, dynamic, and full of the deepest soul anyone could imagine".