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
You’re an electric bluesman in a hip-hop world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
In 1959, a fellow music enthusiast told Mr. Strachwitz that he had found the bluesman in Houston.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
Around the same time Strachwitz met with McDonald, he taped more than a dozen songs by bluesman “Mississippi” Fred McDowell, including McDowell’s version of an old spiritual, “You Gotta Move.”
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 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
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
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
Country singer Hank Williams, and bluesmen Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker were among his musical heroes growing up, along with the king of rock 'n' roll Elvis Presley.
From BBC ● May 23, 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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