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The Best Blues Style Guitars ... There are three main types of guitars being used to play the blues. Let's look at these different types of blues guitars being used today...

Freddie Redd Redds Blues Jazz Music CD Review ... I wish it weren’t the case but, it’s not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just can’t force myself to get through...

How To Find Relief For Your Summertime Foot Blues ... A Pedicure Makes You Feel Like Royalty Pedicures are simply the best way to indulge the feet. This is a perfect way to remove excess dead skin from the feet and toes as well as to rehydrate the entire foot...

How To Play Piano Blues - Tips For Playing Blues On The Piano ... You can keep a chart of scales nearby for reference since there are a lot of scales that can be utilized to play the blues...

... Whenever the Buffs and blues met together at public meeting ... disputes and high words arose between them... Everything in Eatanswill was made a party question. If the Buffs proposed to new skylight the market-place, the blues got up public meetings, and denounced the proceeding; if the blues proposed the erection of an additional pump in the High Street, the Buffs rose as one man and stood aghast at the enormity.
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

Holly Golightly: You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds? You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of.
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)

If men at forty will be painting lakes
The ephemeral blues must merge for them in one,
The basic slate, the universal hue.
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)