The Uses Of The Blues

The Uses of the BluesThe Title, The Uses of the Blues, does not refer to music; I don't know anything about music. It does refer to the experience of life, or the state of being, out of which the blues come. Now, I am claiming a great deal for the blues; I'm using them as a metaphor -- I might have titled this, for example, The Uses of Anguish or The Uses of Pain. But I want to talk about the blues, not only because they speak of this particular experience of life and this state of being, but be...