bluesman
Americannoun
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bluesmen
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Origin of bluesman
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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
Then again, the movie recounts one of Auerbach’s most cherished experiences, when he traveled as an 18-year-old to rural Mississippi and jammed with another pure folk artist: the bluesman T-Model Ford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
The old-soul rhythm and bluesman emerged as a crooning silhouette in front of a pink-orange-blue backdrop mirroring the sunset that had recently slipped beneath the pyramid roof of the neighboring Climate Pledge Arena.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
In 1959, a fellow music enthusiast told Mr. Strachwitz that he had found the bluesman in Houston.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
A bluesman without an ax was just a man riding the train.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
In her analysis of the band's roots, for instance, Jones enumerates the bluesmen, both credited and uncredited, who influenced the Stones' sound.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2022
Like many other American bluesmen, Johnson first experienced widespread acclaim playing in Western European capitals in the 1960s and 1970s, where he packed clubs and theaters.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
Like many other American bluesmen, Mr. Johnson first experienced widespread acclaim playing in Western European capitals in the 1960s and 1970s, where he packed clubs and theaters.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
After the sessions, the three of them sat in the snug center room at Easy Eye and jammed on some songs by the Delta bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and R.L.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2021
He wanted twelve bars and to be a true bluesman among bluesmen.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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