There are many styles of blues, but the distinction of importance to Hughes is between the genres referred to as "folk blues" and "classic blues".

蓝调有很多种风格，但对休斯来说，重要的区别在于被称为“民间蓝调”和“经典蓝调”的流派之间。

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His blues poems are in fact closer stylistically to the folk blues on which he modeled them than to the cultivated classic blues.

事实上，他的蓝调诗歌在风格上更接近他所模仿的民间蓝调，而不是高雅古典的蓝调。

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To see what Hughes' blues poetry might have been like if he had truly adopted the classic blues as his model, one need only look to "Golden Brown Blues", a song lyric Hughes wrote for composer Handy.

要想知道如果休斯真正采用了经典的布鲁斯作为他的模式，他的布鲁斯诗歌可能会是什么样子，只需要看看“金棕色布鲁斯”，这是休斯为作曲家汉迪写的一首歌词。

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

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So, we're going to listen to just a couple of seconds here of a blues tune sung by Nora Jones.

那么,我们来听上几秒钟,诺拉·琼斯的唱的布鲁斯曲调

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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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And she explored the blues in her recent "Memphis Blues" CD.

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Yeah, blues is exhilarating because a lot of people think of blues as a downer, but then the blues can also be an upper, too, you see.

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And when I finished, he says to me, he says, 'My God, I ain't never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues before in my life.

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