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In the style of black American folk music
Answer for the clue "In the style of black American folk music ", 6 letters:
bluesy
Alternative clues for the word bluesy
Word definitions for bluesy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1946, from blues + -y (2).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context music informal English) Characteristic of the blues
Usage examples of bluesy.
He suddenly remembered a song he had written years earlier, a bluesy little piece of braggadocio about having a lightning storm for a father.
They had scored the entire album with dissonant bluesy riffs from Marblehead Johnson.
These and all their possible permutations are ways he talks, joking or mortally serious, over a beer or the phone in a bluesy baritone that slides to whiskey bass depending on his mood.
He filled the darkness with zydeco, the bluesy Cajun-Black mixture he remembered from his childhood.
She hit the power button on her small stereo system in the bookcase, conjuring up a bluesy piano number.
He filled the darkness with zydeco, the bluesy Cajun-Black mixture he remembered from his childhood.
These and all their possible permutations are ways he talks, joking or mortally serious, over a beer or the phone in a bluesy baritone that slides to whiskey bass depending on his mood.
They had scored the entire album with dissonant bluesy riffs from Marblehead Johnson.
Even in the relative quiet of the back room, he could barely hear the trill of the unamplified electric guitar, but caught the touch of bluesy ornamentation that Beth tossed in with the run.