Thesaurus / blues
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My Playground Was a Ditch by the Train Tracks could be a nice blues album if you decide to keep doing work that doesn’t require your face.
W. KAMAU BELL ON SEARCHING FOR A UNITED AMERICAERILEYOCTOBER 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEOne of my favorite blues records was recorded in 1962 by Williams, a Louisianan guitarist who spent years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary before getting released.
CRY YOUR HEART OUT: THE 11 BEST BREAKUP ALBUMS EVER MADEPETER ALLEN CLARKSEPTEMBER 17, 2021TIMEI’ll need money and clothes, but not the gorgeous red blues guitar hanging on the wall.
WHY WE NEW ORLEANIANS KEEP COMING BACK AFTER EVERY STORMMAURICE CARLOS RUFFINSEPTEMBER 2, 2021TIMEAfter kicking his heroin habit temporarily for the first time, he soon emerged with a 10-minute, driving blues number that he reportedly jotted down on toilet paper during the session.
LEE MORGAN’S ‘LIVE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE’ WAS A MASTERPIECE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A FAREWELLSHANNON J. EFFINGERAUGUST 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHill was a seasoned blues musician by the time he joined ZZ Top, having played bass with performers including Freddie King and Lightnin’ Hopkins.
DUSTY HILL, ZZ TOP BASSIST WITH A LEGENDARY BEARD, DIES AT 72HARRISON SMITHJULY 29, 2021WASHINGTON POSTShe dressed in simple lines and quiet tones, dark blues and black, with only a broad lace collar and cuffs in neat relief.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONThe woods of the Undercliff sank softly to the blues and purple, the silver streaks and gorgeous shadows of the sea floor.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARDI shall hear of his having the blues and nervous attacks next, I suppose.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEShe made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLSI like the Wall of Troy design you are using, and the blues and gray will be a good combination.
PATCHWORKANNA BALMER MYERSWORDS RELATED TO BLUES
- ache
- agony
- anguish
- anvil chorus
- bad news
- blues
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- distress
- dolor
- gloom
- grief
- hardship
- headache
- heartache
- hurting
- melancholy
- pang
- passion
- sadness
- sorrow
- squalor
- stitch
- suffering
- throe
- torment
- torture
- twinge
- unhappiness
- woe
- worriment
- worry
- wretchedness
- affection
- air
- atmosphere
- attitude
- aura
- bent
- blues
- caprice
- character
- color
- condition
- crotchet
- cue
- depression
- desire
- disposition
- doldrums
- dumps
- emotion
- fancy
- feel
- feeling
- frame of mind
- high spirits
- humor
- inclination
- individuality
- low spirits
- melancholy
- mind
- personality
- pleasure
- propensity
- response
- scene
- semblance
- soul
- spirit
- strain
- temper
- temperament
- tendency
- tenor
- timbre
- vagary
- vein
- whim
- wish
- affections
- airs
- atmospheres
- attitudes
- auras
- bents
- blues
- caprices
- characters
- colors
- conditions
- crotchets
- cues
- depressions
- desires
- dispositions
- doldrums
- dumps
- emotions
- fancies
- feelings
- feels
- frame of minds
- high spirits
- humors
- inclinations
- individualities
- low spirits
- melancholies
- minds
- personalities
- pleasures
- propensities
- responses
- scenes
- semblances
- souls
- spirits
- strains
- temperaments
- tempers
- tendencies
- tenors
- timbres
- vagaries
- veins
- whims
- wishes
- anguish
- bitterness
- blue devils
- blue funk
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- dismals
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- heavy-heartedness
- horror
- low spirits
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- saturninity
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bad news
- big trouble
- blow
- blues
- care
- catastrophe
- dejection
- depression
- distress
- dolor
- grieving
- hardship
- heartache
- heartbreak
- lamenting
- melancholy
- misery
- misfortune
- mourning
- pain
- rain
- regret
- remorse
- repentance
- rue
- sadness
- suffering
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- weeping
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
- adversity
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bemoaning
- blues
- burden
- calamity
- care
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- curse
- dejection
- deploring
- depression
- disaster
- distress
- dole
- drag
- gloom
- grief
- grieving
- hardship
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- lamentation
- melancholy
- misadventure
- misery
- misfortune
- pain
- rain
- regret
- rue
- sadness
- sorrow
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- wretchedness
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