Blues Gifts

'I see. So what you're saying is that you woke up this morning and your woman had done left you.'

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

'You mean we've all been playing different songs? I wonder how long that's been going on...'

'How come he gets a blues harp?!'

"And for that pain deep down in your soul, I'm going to prescribe the saxophone."

"I guess you could say I play R+B in a Jazz mode bordering on Modern Rock from a World Music perspective but with Heavy Metal overtones deeply rooted in Mississippi Delta Blues..."

Playing Sad Songs on the Piano.

Hip/ hip-hop replacements.

The Great Blues Heron, Live at the Sandbar

"You sang the blues without paying your dues. How do you plead?"

The Dog Pound Blues

'I'm a SNOOOW-Man,...doo-doot-doo-doo, doo-doot-doo-doo, I'm a SNOOOW-Man!...'

Man playing bum-note.

The devil looking at the 'soul' section in a music shop

'I got the ain't nobody reading my tweets blues.'

'So, it was true what they say. You don't choose the blues. They choose you.'

"I can't play the blues like I used to."

Famous Jewish Blues Singer Series.

Blues guitarists gather at the crossroads

"On the upside, all this bad shit could lead to a resurgence in the Blues."

Tiny jazz musicians play large drum and bass.

Nick Cave

"C'mon you bluuues..."

"This next song is about those times when you don't feel really happy or really sad, but just feel okay."

'Your wife has given birth to the blues.'

Why do jazz singers always have the blues?

'Woke up this morning found someone had stolen my guitar...'

Ray Charles

Mississippi John Hurt

"Michael, your father and I are worried that you're awfully young to be singing the blues."

Tedeschi Trucks

Muddy Waters.

'Blind Lemon's career had been going steadily downhill since he started taking prozac'

'I got the ain't nobody texting me blues...'

Bob Dylan