Two Steps from the Blues: The Gospel According to Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Barney Hoskyns, From a Whisper to a Scream (Fontana Books), 1991
WHEN HOWLIN' WOLF left Memphis for Chicago in late 1952, Sun Records' Sam Phillips was left with a crop of younger blues singers who in time would become leading lights of the rhythm and blues sound.
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