"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity...

"Weary Blues" is a 1915 tune by Artie Matthews. Despite the name, the form is a multi-strain ragtime rather than a conventional blues. (At the time it...

Weary Blues (also referred to as The Weary Blues) is an album by the American poet Langston Hughes, who recites several of his poems over jazz accompaniment...

The Crisis magazine and then from book publishers, and became known in the creative community in Harlem. His first poetry collection, The Weary Blues...

"Weary Blues from Waitin'" is a song written by Hank Williams. It was released as a posthumous single on MGM Records in 1953. Although Williams had been...

whilst going against the idea that patriotism is limited by race. It was first published in Hughes' first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem...

poets. Many of Hughes' poems, such as "The Weary Blues", sound almost exactly like popular jazz and blues songs of the period, and vice versa. His work is...

the way to visit his father in Mexico. The poem was first published in The Crisis in June 1921, and was later collected into the 1926 The Weary Blues...

Son" was first published in 1922 in The Crisis. The poem was again published in 1926 in The Weary Blues. Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been...

of late 1969 and highlighting "the weary blues and dashed expectations of a decade's worth of social insurrection". The star and script writer of Easy...

Songs from The Weary Blues (Hughes) (April 26, 1935): "My Dream", "Songs to the Dark Virgin", "Ardella", "Dream Ships"." [Note: The Weary Blues here refers...

Alain (1925). The New Negro. Touchstone. Hughes, Langston (1926). The Weary Blues. New York: Random House. Hughes, Langston (1994). The Collected Poems...

second with "To One Who Say Me Nay", losing to Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues". Cullen graduated from NYU in 1925 and was one of eleven students...

Hughes's The Weary Blues, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man, and Chester Himes's The Big Gold...

wish to linger Where they play the weary blues Second verse Tonight I'm prayin', tonight I'm sayin' Oh Lord please take the train that takes me To Tishomingo...

As a bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums...

The 1919 recordings (two takes) of "Weary Blues" by the Louisiana Five contained the same boogie-woogie bass figure as appears in the 1915 "Weary Blues"...

terms of both sales and critical reception. However, his first work The Weary Blues and this collection made his reputation. Biographer Arnold Rampersad...

verse of "The Hucklebuck", which was another riff, was "borrowed" from the Artie Matthews composition "Weary Blues". Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" had...

his "The Weary Blues". The avenue is mentioned in his "Juke Box Love Song" and "Consider Me". The avenue is featured in the first verse of the original...

revived the song's success, and Louis Prima recorded an influential arrangement of it in 1944, paired with "Just a Gigolo". 1915 – "Weary Blues". Ragtime...

Nicaragua 1926 – Opportunity Magazine publishes Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues 1926 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published. 1927 – Sacco...

Blues & Roots is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on the Atlantic label in 1960. It has been reissued on CD by both Atlantic...

The Waterboys (1983) A Pagan Place (1984) This Is the Sea (1985) Fisherman's Blues (1988) Room to Roam (1990) Dream Harder (1993) A Rock in the Weary...

Brocken, The British folk revival, 1944–2002 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 69–80. L. R. Broer and J. D. Walther, Dancing Fools and Weary Blues: the Great...

Slide Hampton, Two Sides of Slide (Fresh Sound, 1994) Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues with Langston Hughes (MGM, 1958) Michel Legrand, Legrand Jazz (Columbia...

protection of the laws. Afro-American Historical Family Record (1899) "I, Too": The last page of Langston Hughes' 1926 poetry collection Weary Blues; lines from...

"Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) – 8:05 "Beale Street Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 7:40 "Weary Blues" (Artie Matthews) – 6:50 "St. Louis Blues" (Handy) –...

13, 2009. Archived from the original on June 3, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2011. Baram, Marcus (June 22, 2008). "The Weary Blues: Hip-hop godfather Gil Scott-Heron's...

was one of the most influential figures in jazz and in all of American popular music. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and...