The North Fork of the Holston River has its head waters in Bland County.

Even as Journey ’ s latest lineup plays to a still-faithful body of fans, Schon has immersed himself in side projects such as Piranha Blues ( 1999 ) and " Black Soup Cracker " a funk outfit that features former Prince associates Rosie Gaines and Michael Bland, and more recently Soul SirkUS with Jeff Scott Soto.

Allman ’ s solo music has perhaps a greater resonance of soul music than his work with ABB, possibly because of the influence of artists such as Bobby Bland and Little Milton, singers who he has long admired.

For example Hall and MacGregor's 1961 version has a female vocalist ( Shirley Bland ) rendering the third stanza as:

Bland, with whom he has three daughters and a son.

's, Einstürzende Neubauten, the Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio, Brian Eno, Marlene Dietrich, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Xavier Cugat, Junior Kimbrough, Laura Dukes, Mud Boy and the Neutrons, Chris Spedding, Jimmy Reed, The Nightcrawlers, the Velvet Underground, Junior Parker, Othar Turner, Charlie Feathers, Howling Wolf, Mose Vinson, Van Zula Hunt, Cordell Jackson, Ronnie Hawkins, the Ventures, Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley, Skip James, Pat Hare, The Doors, R. L. Burnside, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Fahey, Joe Meek, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Gene Pitney, and Elmore James, among many others Falco has listed over the years.

The paper has also launched the careers of many news journalists, including in recent times Observer Political Editor Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian New York correspondent Oliver Burkeman, Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis, author and columnist Iain Hollingshead, Independent News Editor Oly Duff and Foreign News Editor Archie Bland and columnist Amol Rajan, the paper's New York business correspondent Stephen Foley and Independent columnist Johann Hari.

Further evidence has been reported that Dr. Norton developed the cultivar from seeds from a now extinct variety with unconfirmed parentage, Bland, pollinated by a Vitis Aestivalis grapevine.

He has also written several articles on Salem Bland, a prominent Canadian Christian socialist from the early twentieth century.

Laguna has also recorded Woven Bones, Finally Punk, Christian Bland & the Revelators, The Fleshlights, Cavedweller, John Wesley Coleman, and Cry Blood Apache.

During the fall of 2007 Michael Bland has been busy working on a release by his own protégé, Mayda, performing with her regularly in the Minneapolis area as well as recording a studio album.

Bland has also held a wide range of concurrent Chairmanships and Directorships, including Chairmanship of Century Hutchinson Group ( 1984 ), the Edinburgh-based Canongate Publishing, the National Freight Corporation, known as NFC PLC ( 1994 ), and Life Sciences International PLC ( 1987 ), and Directorship of National Provident ( 1978 ), and Storehouse PLC ( 1988 ) among others.

Bland has a long-standing interest in the cultivation of good wines, and in 1995 bought a 19th Century house with a large wine cellar containing numbered alcoves to accommodate 1, 000 bottles of Bordeaux, 100 bottles of Champagne, and 120 bins of white Burgundy.

In the Second Test England enforced the follow on after another Barrington century – 121 – was brought up with a six as he added 191 with Dexter for the third wicket, but Colin Bland dug in for 144 not out as South Africa held out for a draw.

Bland was one of the founders of the Albanian Society, and three years after its foundation he became its secretary, a post which he held almost continuously for 30 years until the fall of the communist regime in Albania.

Bland was held by Chris Watson, the first Leader of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Australia's first Labor Prime Minister.

His families, the Randolph family of Virginia and the Bland family of Virginia are both counted among the prominent First Families of Virginia and close cousins to each other.

Major-General Thomas Bland Strange, a retired British officer living near Calgary, raised a force of cowboys and other white settlers, added to them two units of North-West Mounted Police ( NWMP ), and headed north.

* Lucius Lamar, from Mississippi, for eulogizing Charles Sumner on the Senate Floor and other efforts to mend ties between the North and South during Reconstruction, and for his principled opposition to the Bland – Allison Act to permit free coinage of silver.

Geoff Bland was the only other veteran from the 1927 World Tour squad and five matches in total were won and five lost.

He played his first professional gigs with a local bebop big band called the Jackie Bland Band ( other members included his brother Wayne, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, and pianist Walter Davis, Jr .).

In 2010, Bland became a member of Nick Jonas and the Administration ( a side project of Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers ) along with other former members of The New Power Generation, bass player Sonny T. and keyboardist Tommy Barbarella.

Early generations of Randolphs married into several other gentry families, including Beverley, Bland, Fleming, Byrd, Fitzhugh, Carter, Cary, Harrison and Page.

* Bland T. & Binney W. G. ( 1874 ) " On the lingual dentition and anatomy of Achatinella and other Pulmonata ".

Other notable politicians who had their first success at this election include Harvey Hinds ( Labour, Southwark, later Chief Whip for Ken Livingstone ) and Christopher Bland ( Conservative, Lewisham, later Chairman of the BBC ).

Bland was elected as a member of the Greater London Council for Lewisham from 1967, and became Deputy Chairman of Inner London Education Authority and Chairman of the Schools committee.

From 1 January 1982, Bland joined the board of LWT ( Holdings ) and on 1 January 1984 succeeded John Freeman as Chairman of the main board of LWT.

He was a Director of ITN and GMTV, and Chairman of Century Hutchinson, an LWT subsidiary When, after the 1993 franchise renewal, LWT was taken over by Granada, Bland became a millionaire.

In 1811 he purchased the estate Sully in Fairfax County, Virginia from his second cousin Richard Bland Lee.

On the fifth ballot, the Illinois delegation, led by Governor Altgeld, switched its votes from Bland to Bryan.

The death toll reached 96 in March 1993, when artificial feeding and hydration was withdrawn from 22-year-old Tony Bland after nearly four years, during which time he had been in a persistent vegetative state and shown no sign of improvement.

Andrew Devine, aged 22 at the time of the disaster, suffered similar injuries to Tony Bland and was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, but in March 1997 – a month before the eighth anniversary of the disaster – it was reported he had emerged from the condition and was able to communicate using a touch-sensitive pad.

On May 28, 1885, Major General Thomas Bland Strange brought an NWMP detachment from Calgary, Alberta, but they were unable to defeat a Cree force under Big Bear who carried the day at Frenchman's Butte at the end of May.

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. ( 1898-1977 ) One of the oldest families in America and Virginia dating from a. d. 1584 in what was the Ronanok Colony, the first Dodge Brothers Dealer in the America, in 1969 Hurricane Camile he lost everything and is quoated Worldwide as saying " It's GODs WIll!

Bland County was formed in 1861 from Wythe, Tazewell, and Giles counties.

There was also great dissatisfaction with taxes paid for the benefit of those far removed from the rugged mountains and valleys of Bland.

The county was named after Richard Bland, a leader of Colonial Virginia whose arguments laid the intellectual foundation for freedom and independence from England.

The population distribution of Bland County is: 19. 40 % under the age of 18, 7. 60 % from 18 to 24, 30. 60 % from 25 to 44, 27. 90 % from 45 to 64, and 14. 50 % who were 65 years of age or older.

King and Bobby Bland, in 1974 Burke signed with ABC Dunhill Records, where his main project was the soul concept album I Have a Dream ( Dunhill DSX 50161 ), a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, where " the songs were built on key phrases from his speeches – " Now Is the Time ", " Mountain Top ", or from the aims of his crusade " Social Change "'.

1937 also saw a ten minute made-for-TV extract from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas, and starring Ernest Milton as Richard and Beatrix Lehm as Lady Anne ( 9 April ); a one-hundred minute abridged version of Orson Welles ' legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself as Caesar and George Coulouris as Mark Antony ; and a thirty minute extract from André van Gyseghem's Embassy Theatre production of Cymbeline starring George Woodbridge as Cymbeline and Joyce Bland as Imogen ( 29 November ).

Dreier claims to be a distant relative of Richard Bland Lee, a congressman from Virginia who served on the first Rules Committee empaneled by the House of Representatives.

Lilian Bland built and flew her own glider, the first biplane built in Ireland, from here in 1910.

* Lilian Bland builds and flies her own glider, the first biplane built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill, soon afterwards fitting an engine.

Richard Bland ( May 6, 1710 – October 26, 1776 ), sometimes referred to as Richard Bland II or Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was an American planter and statesman from Virginia.

This branch of the Bland family first came to Virginia in 1654, when the father of Richard I, Theodorick Bland of Westover ( 1629 – 1671 ), emigrated from London and Spain, where he had been attending to the family mercantile and shipping enterprises.