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blues
(redirected from bluesier)

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*blues 
1. sadness; a mood of depression. (*Typically: get ~; have ~.) You'll have to excuse Bill. He's getting the blues thinking about Jane. I get the blues every time I hear that song.
2. a traditional style of popular music characterized by lyrics expressing hardship, lost love, etc. Buddy had been singing the blues ever since the Depression.

the baby blues
a feeling of sadness that some women experience after they have given birth to a baby According to this article, as many as 60% of women suffer from the baby blues.
See cry like a baby, throw the baby out with the bath water, wet the baby's head
See also: baby

sing the blues
to complain Computer programmers are singing the blues because business is bad and no one is hiring.
Etymology: based on the type of music called the blues (a musical form in which songs often are about difficulties or bad luck)
See also: sing


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With a warm, throaty soprano reminiscent of Emmylou Harris, and phrasing ingenuity to match, Lynch sounds strongest on the more overtly religious tracks and bluesier laments.
It rocks in a similar way to the earlier Humpers, just take out the power chords and replace them with something much bluesier and slow it down a notch.
For my part, I would have preferred more from the bluesier types - King, Guy, etc.
 
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