And throughout, distinctive blues melodies inform everything, producing music that had simply never been heard before.

We were singing kind of a blues melody on top of electronic stuff.

He said "Scream" had a blues melody which makes use of rinky dink sounds, an instrument often played at music festivals.

Somewhere nearby, a guitarist began playing a blues melody Jack could almost identify; the title swam to the surface of his mind, then dove out of sight.

It was one of several answer songs to "Work With Me Annie" and has the same 12-bar blues melody.

The two pianists articulated the richness of the music; classical ideas were underscored, then replaced moments later by blues melodies.

The characters sing their stories to a simple blues melodies.

He sang a few blues and swung hard, never falling for obvious blues melodies and always letting the sound carry his phrasing.

He sits on static phrases, creating tension, then breaks it all with laughing blues melodies.

Of the four singers, Ms. Ball sticks to pure blues melodies the most; she runs through her songs with a quivering, thin voice.