Bobby "Blue" Bland - Further Up The Road (with lyrics & comments)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post showcases performances of "Further Up The Road" by Bobby Blue Bland. Information about Bobby Blue Bland, lyrics & comments about this song are also included in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT BOBBY "BLUE" BLAND
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bland
"Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland (January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), also known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American singer of blues and soul. He was an original member of the Beale Streeters,[1] and was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues". Along with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Junior Parker, Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B.[1] An imitator of Frank Sinatra, he was also known as the “Sinatra of the blues”, his music being influenced by Nat King Cole.[2]

Bobby Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.[3]"

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONG "FURTHER UP THE ROAD"
From
""Farther Up the Road" is credited to Joe Medwick (born Joseph Medwick Veasey), a Houston-area independent songwriter/broker, and Duke Records owner Don Robey. In an interview, blues singer Johnny Copeland claimed he and Medwick wrote the song in one night; Medwick then sold it the next day to Robey, with Robey taking Copeland's songwriting credit.[2] According to Bobby Bland, Medwick wrote the song with no involvement by Robey.[2]

Farther Up the Road" is a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues that has been called a "seminal Texas shuffle".[3] It features Bland's vocals contrasted with the aggressive guitar sound of Pat Hare.[4] The backing arrangement is provided by the Bill Harvey Orchestra, who add a big band-influenced intro and outro as well as chord substitutions to the twelve-bar scheme. Part of the song's success may be due to Bland's "telling a convincing story, making brief lyrical vignettes highly believable with his conversational style".[5]

The song was Bland's first charting single after several years of recording for various record companies. It became a #1 hit during a fourteen-week stay in 1957 in the Billboard R&B chart as well as reaching #43 in the Billboard pop chart.[6] Bland enjoyed nearly uninterrupted chart success for the next twenty years."

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LYRICS - FURTHER UP THE ROAD

Further on up the road
Someone's gonna hurt you
Like you hurt me
Further on up the road
Someone's gonna hurt you
Like you hurt me

Further on up the road
Baby, you just wait and see

You got to reap
Just what you sow
That old saying is true
You got to reap
Just what you sow
That old saying is true

Like you mistreat someone
Someone's gonna mistreat you

Now you're laughing, pretty baby
Someday, you're gonna be crying
Now you're laughing, pretty baby
Someday, you're gonna be crying

Further on up the road
You found out I wasn't lying

Yeah, baby
Further on up the road, baby
You found out I wasn't lying

Further on up the road
When you're all alone and blue
Further on up the road
When you're all alone and blue

You're gonna ask me to
Take you back, baby
But I'll have somebody new

Mmm, baby
Further on up the road
Mmm, baby
Further on up the road
Mmm, you'll get yours

Source: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bobby_bland/farther_up_the_road.html


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SHOWCASE EXAMPLES
Example #1: Further up the road - Bobby bland



Deckswax,Uploaded on Nov 19, 2009

'Further up the road' by Bobby Bland.

A tale of what goes around comes around.
If ever a man had the wrong name it was Robert Bland 'cos bland he certainly wasn't.
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Here are three comments from this soundfile's viewer comment thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3cYcEfJtY:
"In Memphis in 1956 he was called Bobby ^" BLUE"^ Bland by no less than Dewey Phiilips on his radio show on Saturday night on WHBQ from the near condemned Chickasaw Hotel mezzeanaine floor { phonetically pronounced Chicksa] and on his tv show weekdays at 4:00pm His gorilla would just say Duh!

And BB King and Rufus Thomas at WDIA woud agree."
-ju2071944, 2013
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"This wouldn't be the same without Pat Hare's amazing guitar work, a true blues guitar hero."
-ShotgunBuddha4698, 2012
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"Oh Man!!! The original and still the best. He IS GREAT!!!

Why can't you hear this on the (free) radio? Clapton copies this and they play it to death-Bobby is the original and it doesn't get on. WTH."
-TommyMacDaddy1, 2010

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Example #2: "Further On Up The Road" - Bobby "Blue" Bland



malacomg, Uploaded on Feb 10, 2011
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Here's a comment from this video's viewer comment thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZCdJ4n60Q
"Yes the tempo is a little fast but Bobby is doing 200+ shows a year when this show was taped. You are listening to one of the songs that Bobby did that's been covered by everybody. Listen closely and you have to agree Bobby does this song the best. Hell it was a song he sang first.Bobby Bland a well kept secret Bobby Bland like Elvis a good Memphis singer."
-"Thaddeus Youmans, 2012

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