blues

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He took all his blues was able to turn them, with the help of Jagger, into brilliant, scary, knife-edged songs.

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  1. plural noun A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
  2. plural noun A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).

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  • WSHA. “The blues is the blues is the blues,” Rogers said, his tone folksy, soothing. —  EQMM,June2007
  • MAN UTD reckon their title blues are down to the colour of Edwin van der Sar's shirt
  • For some, the blues are about acknowledging and th ... —  News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times.
  • The old adage is that folks who excel at playing the blues are the ones who have lived the blues. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • The Rich folks complain if you try a take away their presure life which is US Currency and a perfect example is WallStreet and the elitist crying the blues were the markets tumbled. —  Cafferty File
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