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[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds fine to me. "A blues" = "a blues piece."

  JL

"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilson Gray
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> Amen, Larry. BTW, thinking about an old friend, what ever
> happened to "slum"? [There''s a pun. "Thinking About an Old
> Friend" is the title of a Texas blues.]
>

I've never heard nor seen "blues" used as a singular count noun like
that before. Izzat standard?
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