![]() Jones explained that Bland “didn’t want you bending no strings” – though Bennett clearly did his share of string-bending. ![]() An excellent ES-345 player, Jones said in a interview, “Wayne Bennett molded the sound with Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland for guitar players. A decade before his tenure with Bland, from 1976 to ’79, Johnny Jones was a member of Nashville’s King Casuals, filling the slot left by Jimi Hendrix. Best known for a 20-year run with Duke Records that yielded such classics as “I Pity The Fool,” “I’ll Take Care Of You,” and his reworking of T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday Blues,” he was a major influence on singers as diverse as Mick Hucknall and Elvis Presley.īland’s records invariably featured stellar guitar work. On June 23 of last year, the blues lost one of its greatest singers with the death of Bobby “Blue” Bland at age 83.
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