sing the blues
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Plot A play with music about a young black woman in Depression-era Memphis who longs to sing the blues.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2019
“Ma says, ‘I don’t sing the blues to feel good.
From Washington Times • Jul. 20, 2019
As a girl, she ran off to Chicago to sing the blues, and she became friends with Armstrong, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, and King Oliver.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019
During a 1982 appearance on “Late Night With David Letterman,” Mr. Cochran described the raspy vocal quality needed to sing the blues.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2017
She listened to Janis sing the blues, her voice filled with suffering, yet tenderness.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
