bluesman
Americannoun
plural
bluesmenEtymology
Origin of bluesman
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
This year’s slate is led by gentle-breezing gospel staples The Blind Boys of Alabama and electrified bluesman Cedric Burnside, the grandson of blues great R.L.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 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
People who knew Cool Papa as a bluesman, and knew him as Clayton Byrd on blues harp.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
