55 Facts About The Blues

1. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

2. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

3. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

4. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

5. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

6. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

7. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

8. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

9. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

10. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

11. The Blues are second in the NHL in high-danger shot attempts allowed, meaning shots near the crease or around the slot, with 438 in 59 games.

12. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

13. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

14. The Blues have played better of late under head coach Craig Berube and now sit just five points behind the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche for the wild-card spots in the Western Conference.

15. St Louis The Blues have made several roster moves as they prepare for their final game before the All-Star break.

16. The Blues had to open a couple of roster spots to accommodate their return, sending forwards Jordan Kyrou and Jordan Nolan to their AHL affiliate in San Antonio.

17. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

18. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

19. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

20. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

21. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

22. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

23. The Blues are in the same predicament as the once-mighty Kings.

24. The Blues have some motivation to trade away veterans and tank the season.

25. The Blues will have nine days between games after playing Wednesday night in Anaheim.

26. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

27. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

28. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

29. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

30. The Blues Beat often mentions food as it often goes together with blues.

31. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

32. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

33. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

34. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

35. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

36. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

37. The Blues won the first eight faceoffs of the game.

38. The Blues had grown up in the South as a folk music which documented the hard life of sharecropping field hands.

39. The Blues was born in the Delta and grew up on its journey from the country to the city, but the place it came of age was Chicago.

40. The Blues developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War.

41. The Blues is a form of music that started in the United States during the start of the 20th century.

42. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is thought to be the first blues recording.

43. Mamie Smith's "Crazy The Blues", recorded in 1920, is largely acknowledged as the first blues recording.

44. The Blues have figured prominently in the work of more recent African-American writers and critics.

45. The Blues is an African-American invention that was a reworking of European-derived conceptions of song form, melody, harmony, and meter along African cultural lines.

46. The Blues is a genre of American popular music that attained national prominence in the 1910s and 1920s.

47. The Blues has influenced many substyles of jazz and instigated numerous pop genres, including Rock and Roll.

48. The Blues originated as an expression of the individual and interactive social tradition of a displaced African American population.

49. The Blues is a typically American music with its earliest roots in African forms.

50. The Blues are very much a live-in-the-present team, right up until they're not.

51. The Blues entered the game just five points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference, and now have just one game left _ Wednesday at Anaheim _ before breaking for the All-Star Game and their bye period.

52. The Blues participated in the rendition of compilations of major blues artists in a series of high-quality CDs.

53. The Blues became a code word for a record designed to sell to black listeners.

54. The Blues has evolved from the unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves imported from West Africa and rural blacks into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, with regional variations across the United States.

55. The Blues is a music genre and musical form originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1870s.