The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #36440   Message #503700
Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Jul-01 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: How old is 'the blues' meaning sadness?
Subject: RE: BS: How old is 'the blues' meaning sadness?
Interesting coincidence. Just today I read this:

"Lecturing is gymnastics, chest-expander, medicine, mind healer, blues destroyer, all in one." -- Mark Twain, in a letter to Sammy Moffett, 15 Aug 1895, quoted by Andrew Hoffman, in "Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens," 1997.