Farther Up the Road, also known as Further on Up the Road, is a blues tune first recorded in 1957 by Bobby "Blue" Bland. It is a seminal Texas shuffle that pairs Bland's smooth vocals with a gritty, overdriven guitar and a big band flavored 12-bar blues arrangement on Duke Records. The song, written by Don Robey and Joe Medwick Veasey, was Bland's first chart topping single on the Billboard R&B chart for fourteen weeks and reached number 43 on the Hot 100. It appears on Bland's 1958 album Blues Consolidated, a co-release with Junior Parker. The track helped bridge 1940s blues to the 1960s blues rock sound and influenced later players including Eric Clapton. In 2022 Bland's recording was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame as a Classic of Blues Recording: Singles.
