blues
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Like a blues singer worrying a note, his nuances of tone and emphasis make his story and his point sound bold, undeniable and appealingly cool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Like him, the film is quiet and meditative, bathed in the cool blues and verdant greens of the setting, captured in Maya Bankovic’s saturated cinematography.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Instead, when he was 18, he and a friend decided to move to Texas to be near the American blues singer and guitarist Lightnin' Hopkins.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
He curtly dismisses 2005’s strong “A Bigger Bang” and 2016’s “Blue & Lonesome,” a back-to-basics album of blues covers, as “adequate endeavors that signaled a band living on borrowed time.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
Ivy could draw it, the loneliness, a wispy cloud the color of a clear sky just after sunset, all deep blues and purples.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Vocabulary lists containing blues
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Music - Introductory
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