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Traveling the Blues Highway

旅行蓝调公路

Sheer joy of performing radiates from Big Jack Johnson and family members in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His guitar wails with the amplified notes of Chicago-style blues.

Sheer joy of performing radiates from Big Jack Johnson and family members in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His guitar wails with the amplified notes of Chicago-style blues.

2026-02-04  5486  晦涩
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The phrase "having the blues" goes back to 18th-century England, where the "blue devils" was slang for melancholia. But it was sorrows like Sam Kendrick's, common among Blacks after the Civil War, that led to a raw new music—the blues—depicting work, love, poverty, and the hardships freedmen faced in a world barely removed from slavery. 

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