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Bobby "Blue" Bland, Denise LaSalle, The Rose Brothers: Saenger Theatre, New Orleans

Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 31 May 1986

THE DEEPER you go into the heart of them ol' United States, the deeper the soul, and way down yonder in N'awlins this kind of bill is on tap all the time. The following week, for instance, the same venue was to host a triple treat starring Solomon Burke, Betty Wright and Joe Simon. This particular evening was dominated by a man who's been singing the most delicately mean blues, to almost complete UK indifference, for 30 years.

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