| 释义 |
bluesman, n.
Brit. |ˈbluːzman|, U.S. |ˈbluzˌmæn|
Plural bluesmen
[‹ blues n. + man n.1]
A male performer or composer of the blues, esp. an outstanding or influential one.
1953Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 3 July 4/3 Mez Mezzrow, the Big Blues Man, was arrested in Paris for peddling merrywanna. 1958Salisbury (Maryland) Times 28 Mar. 1/1 (headline) Blind bluesman [sc. W. C. ‘Papa’ Handy] succumbs to pneumonia. 1978L. W. Levine Black Culture & Black Consciousness iv. 234 John Szwed has argued that the bluesman is something of a shaman. 1989Q Dec. 67/2 The man who often throws songs into the set that only he and some long-dead bluesman are even faintly aware of. 2003Time Out N.Y. 13 Feb. 117/1 It is Blakeslee's inventive guitar work that cements this 21-year-old bedroom howler's unlikely bluesman status. |