bluesmann.
/ˈbluːzman/, U.S. /ˈbluzˌmæn/ A male performer or composer of the blues, esp. an outstanding or influential one.
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mourner1631
catcher1652
monodist1751
pennill singer1784
folk-singer1898
moaner1927
bluesman1930
calypsonian1934
torch singer1934
lieder-singer1936
torcher1940
country singer1953
protest singer1966
ragga1997
1930 N.Y. Times 5 Jan. viii. 2 x/4 Riverside—Ted Lewis, the moaning blues man, is the week's big item in this house.
1953 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 3 July 4/3 Mez Mezzrow, the Big Blues Man, was arrested in Paris for peddling merrywanna.
1978 L. W. Levine Black Culture & Black Consciousness iv. 234 John Szwed has argued that the bluesman is something of a shaman.
1989 Q 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.
2003 Time 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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