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| | Blues Biographies - Artist of the Blues - Blues-Radio.com |
 | | ♠ The History of the Blues by Robert M. Baker Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. |
 | | For instance, the complexity of ideas implicit in Robert Johnson's 'Come In My Kitchen,' such as a barely concealed desire, loneliness, and tenderness, and much more: You better come in my kitchen, It's gonna be rainin' outdoors. |
 | | Blues lyrics are often intensely personal, frequently contain sexual references and often deal with the pain of betrayal, desertion, and unrequited love (Kamien 519) or with unhappy situations such as being jobless, hungry, broke, away from home, lonely, or downhearted because of an unfaithful lover. |
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