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Example sentences for: blues

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The paintings here are the best preserved of any from Roman antiquity — frescoes in brilliant blues, greens, and the inimitable Pompeii reds.
Rhythm 'n' blues (the music of the black South) and other manifestations of the black "sound," like urban doo-wop, came to the attention of whites--like the record mogul Ahmet Ertegun in Washington, the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (who wrote "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City") in Los Angeles, DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, and Elvis Presley in Memphis, who was totally immersed in black music almost by accident.
It is not likely that reduced light exposure, alone, could explain why a postpartum mother develops the blues or more serious depression.
(Click to hear Boggs' menacing combination of blues and high-lonesome mountain styling.)
It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.