the thirty-four year old performer continues to combine the sounds of jazz, folk music and the blues.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

But what she's working off of here— we're not going to listen to the whole thing-- is this idea of a blues scale.

但她处理这段曲子的方法,我们不是要全部听完,是布鲁斯音阶的理念

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

and then I worked for the House of Blues, which is another staple in Hollywood

接着我给“蓝调之家”干，也是好莱坞的一家重要的大公司，

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Years later her love for the blues would earn her the title "Queen of the Blues."

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Another book, another book cover, The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes, 1926.

另一本书，另一本的封面，这是1926年由兰斯顿，休斯所著的《萎靡的布鲁斯》

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Later,he won a National Book Critics Circle award for "The Land Where the Blues Began,"

VOA: special.2010.01.25

I worked for the House of Blues, I worked with the talent there, and...

我给蓝调之家工作，才跟那些有名的人一起工作，

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"Can't Even Get the Blues" was released in nineteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Yeah, you know, you get people on the harmonica playing blues.

是的，你可以看到有人用口琴吹奏蓝调音乐。

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The blues-rock band Blind Boys of Alabama performed.

VOA: special.2010.10.15

It is called "Lady Sings the Blues."

VOA: special.2010.02.28

She heard Bessie Smith sing the blues.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Irma,who was recently inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, says retirement is not an option for her right now.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Miller's fascination with the blues began in Dallas,Texas, where he formed his first band The Marksmen.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Koko Taylor gave her last performance on May 7 at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Her passion for the blues began at home, where she listened to records by Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie on the radio.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

It was Koko Taylor's earthy growl and heartfelt delivery of blues classics like "Wang Dang Doodle" that earned her the title, "Queen Of The Blues."

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Although her father encouraged Koko to pursue gospel music, she would sneak out of the house, and sing the blues with her brothers accompanying her on homemade instruments.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Among them, a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album, the Blues Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into the Blues Hall of Fame, and a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

In nineteen eighty, Pinetop Perkins and the other Muddy Waters' band members formed their own group, the Legendary Blues Band.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

It was there that young Billie first heard the records of famous black American blues artists of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Rockets explode to fill the dark, night sky with bright reds and blues, with yellows and greens and whites.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

This week we play music by blues great Koko Taylor, who died last week at the age of eighty.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

His heartfelt,powerful, soulful singing helped establish him as one of the greatest rhythm and blues performers of all time.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Ted Gioia is author of "Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Like many rhythm and blues artists of the day, he began his musical career singing in church choirs.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Peyroux has said that the great blues singers Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith still help shape her identity.

VOA: special.2009.07.10