the blues
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True to the blues, jazz musicians understand and deal with the hard facts of life in a very practical way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Later on, in a highly unusual move, she’s accompanied by leading lights of the blues recording genre—Papa Charlie Jackson, Tampa Red, Blind Blake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
But buyers are shaking off the blues in certain parts of the country, even if it doesn’t move the needle much on a national level.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
He said the US was "where all the music we loved came from, all the rock 'n' roll, the blues and the whole thing...America was just the land of the free, the greatest democracy".
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Didn’t Cool Papa tell the crowd earlier that the blues was more than a song, it was a story?
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
