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The Word/The Blues. A Meditation
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Investigating blues poetry, an old tradition
The blues haunts us, haints us, holds us tight to memory. Ancestor bound and rhythm rocked, it recalls our hurts, healing them through a bent-note gospel of moan. Hardhearted blues. Hard-workin' blues. Lost woman blues. Baby, come back blues. Blues birthed between the thighs of hallelujah shouts and work-song rhythm, filled with cotton-field sweat and the salve of a churchified moan. We created songs of redemption that conquered pain by clai...
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Still singing the blues in the Mississippi Delta.
U.S. News & World Report
; `I could tell the girl was lying all the time by the way she looked at me. Michael James sings to the tune of Frankie and Johnny in a slow, languid voice. This place could be Everybar, U.S.A., but it's Red's juke joint in Clarksdale, Miss. As musicians pluck, wail, and whoop, the past comes up to
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Three women sing `Blues' in Bailiwick show
Chicago Sun-Times
; How many ways can a woman sing the blues? That's the question now being answered on the stage of Bailiwick Repertory, where "Blues in the Night," a zesty little musical revue, opened over the weekend. Conceived and originally directed by Sheldon Epps, "Blues" enjoyed a run on Broadway in 1986 and
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Lester, Julius The Blues Singers.
The Book Report
; Illustrated by Lisa Cohen. 2001. 48pp. $15.99 hc. Hyperion Books for Children. 0-7868-0463-7. Grade 5 & Up In Lester's latest story, a grandfather explains to his granddaughter how the roots of the blues go back to slavery, when slaves sang spirituals, or songs for the spirit. Singing the blues
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Blacks and blues, but not read all over
The Spectator
; THF NEW BLACKWELL GUIDE TO RECORDED BLUES edited by John Cowley and Paul Oliver Blackwell,sell. 40, f13.99, pp. 495 The -advent of CD players has brought about a fresh interest in blues, so this guide to new and reissued material is invaluable. It is nt!t a complete list of available blues on
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Bessie Smith, Handy brought blues to world
Chicago Sun-Times
; Last in a series February is Black History Month, a salute to contributions and achievements of black Americans. For generations, blacks hummed and sang the tunes and words of an unwritten folk music. Some of the songs were left to them by their forefathers. Others were made up by the singers
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