When you sing the blues, what do you sing?

Question

Guilty--Bonnie Riatt.

Confidential to nepenthicola:

I meant when you're sad but wasn't clear enough.

The blues are so cool. No other genre expresses sorrow and regret like the blues.

Answer 1

In English each color is representative for a feeling so when you sing the blues you sing a sad song.

Answer 2

(all: my own version)

Crossroads - Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton style

La Grange - Z.Z. Top

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

Brain Damage/Eclipse - Pink Floyd

I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After

Over The Hill - Ten Years After

Feelin' Alright? - Dave Mason

Hymn 43 - Jethro Tull

Big Time - Peter Gabriel

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin & Memphis Minnie

Hotel California - The Eagles

Just Got Paid - Z.Z. Top

Anyway the Wind Blows - J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton

working on some stuff by Warren Haynes, Joe Bonamassa, and Walter Trout ("Apparitions")(W. Haynes: "If Heartaches Were Nickels" - I heard the Joe Bonamassa version first) and other stuff and I do some of my own too, through an overdriven tube amp driven by a Les Paul. I usually play along, but its late at night so I'm keeping it quiet here. Listening to Joe Bonamassa right now. I aspire to be good enough to get on stage and play guitar with Joe Bonamassa... and not look like an idiot.

:)

Answer 3

I am a professional Blues singer and I tend to sing not only what I like but what my audience digs. So, Tyrone Davis, Marvin Sease, Kenne Wayne Landry, Johnnie Taylor, some Ronnie Lovejoy, Otis Rush, Lonnie Brooks, Joe Simon. You know, the good stuff.

Answer 4

blues is not always a sad expression ,it`s more of a release
of anxiety and frustration.there`s alot of blues that is funny.
music wise it`s a vocal tradition, voice or instrument,singing
the blues can be on a horn etc. and it`s based on a scale of
root,flat third,fourth, flat fifth, fifth, flat seventh.you sing lines
from the tradition in the past,and improvise.it`s like learning a language,learn to speak than sing it. let it roll !!!

Answer 5

You don't have to be sad to sing the blues, you just have to feel strongly about something. Its a genre of feeling and emotion.

Answer 6

the blues are my favorite genre of music, and I don't find the blues as depressing. I don't know why so many people think it is???? The blues are awesome real life ,deep from your soul, music, period!!

Answer 7

Man, I sing a LOT of stuff when I have the blues!

http://www.youtube.com/macegill

Answer 8

The blues is what you feel happy, sad,in love,outa love what ever you feel your feelin' the blues.....sgd

Answer 9

I sing what I feel, best when I don't think about it too hard.

Answer 10

BLUES.....is the most intelligent form of musical expression ....because it makes you....WISE!