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The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern. The word is also often used in musical contexts to refer to the twelve bar blues, a particular blues song form.

Blues may also refer to:

• Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), Household Cavalry regiment of the British Army
• Blues, video game character from the Mega Man series
• The Blues, documentary series produced by Martin Scorsese
• A depressed mood is often referred to as the blues
• Blues dance, a style of social dance done to blues music
• Blues, a play about the homeless in America.
• Polyommatinae, a butterfly subfamily, often referred to as "Blues"
• Valium pills are sometimes referred to as "blues" in street slang.
• Blues, a political party in the Byzantine empire. Their rivals were the Greens.
• Blue Mountains, a mountain range in Nunavut, Canada
• Association of Breton Blues, a liberal and anticlerical organization in late 19th century Brittany.

Music

• Blues, compilation album by guitarist Jimi Hendrix
• The Blues, 1999 compilation by Eric Clapton
• Blues, a Bob Dylan compilation album
• Blues Saraceno (born 1971), guitarist and producer
• "The Blues (song)", 1990 song by Tony! Toni! Toné!
• "Blues", the sixth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album

Sports

• Blues (Super rugby franchise), Super 14 rugby union team based in Auckland
• Cardiff Blues, rugby union team from Wales
• Carlton Blues, Australian rules football team in the AFL
• Cleveland Blues, various baseball teams of that former name
• Espoo Blues, ice hockey team of Espoo, Finland
• Les bleus (the blues) is the nickname for the French national association football team and French national rugby union team
• Nashville Blues, a minor league baseball team based in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887
• New South Wales Blues, first class cricket team in Australia
• New South Wales Blues, a rugby league team representing New South Wales, Australia.
• St. Louis Blues (hockey), professional NHL ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri
• Sturt Double Blues, Australian rules football team in the SANFL
• The Blues is a nickname of a number of British association football clubs:
  • Chelsea F.C.
  • Birmingham City F.C.
  • Everton F.C.
  • Ipswich Town F.C.
  • Manchester City F.C.
• University Sporting Blue, an award won by athletes at Oxford and Cambridge; "Blues" are the participants in The Boat Race

See also

• Blue (disambiguation)
• The Blues (disambiguation)

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