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the blues
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The Blues
The Blues is the title of a number-one R&B single by the band Tony! Toni! Toné!. The hit song spent one week at number one on the U. S. R&B Singles Chart and peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single also peaked at number 43 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart, and number 92 on the UK Singles Chart
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of the blues in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of the blues in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.
The new book is a pictorial book, which stays very much focused on the beginnings of Fleetwood Mac -- 1967 thought the next eight years -- and it's very much regarding what drove us as young musicians, which was blues, it's really a journey that chronicles all of those early years that are mostly unknown in America.
One of the biggest triumphs of African-American music is the banjo, the banjo took over the world. That means we helped create America's music. Not blues. Not jazz. America's music, period.
Perhaps no music has had as profound and powerful an impact in shaping America's musical score as Black music, for generations, Black music has conveyed the hopes and struggles of a resilient people -- spirituals mourning the original sin of slavery and later heralding freedom from bondage, hard truths told through jazz and the sounds of Motown during the civil rights movement, and hip-hop and rhythm and blues that remind us of the work that still lies ahead.
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