bluesman
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Origin of bluesman
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Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The Texas bluesman Gary Clark Jr. reinforces the connection in “Maktub,” Arabic for “it is written”; it’s from his exploratory, style-hopping new EP, “Jpeg Raw.”
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
In June 1950, Lauderdale sent Charles out on a long tour with bluesman Lowell Fulson.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023
Besides, who better to read about embarking on travel and escaping trouble than Cool Papa, who had sailed the seas as a navy man, and traveled the road, both home and abroad, as a bluesman?
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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