All 18 Uses of

blues
in
Bud, Not Buddy

Two of them had the same picture of Herman E. Calloway and the two guys but the first was called "Herman E. Calloway and the Terminally Unhappy Blues Band,"
p. 95.4 *

blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

Herman E. Calloway was making everybody feel like they had the blues, it looked like Mr. Jimmy'd just wiped some tears from his eyes too.
p. 227.7 *

blues = feelings of sadness or depression

The only difference I could see between the blue one and the others was that the others didn't say anything about Flint on them.†
p. 8.3

I remember this blue one too 'cause it wasn't too long after she brought it home that I knocked on Momma's bedroom door, then found her.†
p. 8.4

I put the blue flyer back in the suitcase with the four older ones and put everything back in its place.†
p. 8.5

A very tall, square-shaped man in old blue overalls looked down at me and said, "Clarence, what took you so long?"†
p. 47.6

Next I counted the flyers again, all five were there, I slid all of them back, except for the blue one.†
p. 79.4

Bugs caught it and when he set it behind him the blue flyer blew out of the twine and fluttered outside the door.†
p. 84.4

Maybe someone was trying to tell me something, what with me missing the train and the blue flyer floating back to me, maybe Deza Malone was right.†
p. 86.5

I pulled the blue flyer out of my pocket and opened my suitcase back up.†
p. 86.6

I put the blue one with the writing about Flint on it on the bottom and looked at the others.†
p. 95.2

The first thing I noticed was a huge pile of pancakes sitting on a blue and white plate on top of the table.†
p. 121.7

Mrs. Sleet came into the room with another blue plate, covered with little round pieces of meat.†
p. 125.6

Then people started passing the big blue plates around and stabbing toast and pancakes and sausages with their forks.†
p. 126.2

She kept on talking but I quit listening 'cause something just came out of the blue and give me a good whop right on my forehead.†
p. 221.9

Definitions:

(1) (blues as in: sings the blues)
a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

(blue notes are musical notes sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale -- especially the flatted third, fifth and seventh)
(2) (blues as in: feeling the blues)
feelings of sadness or depression
(3) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

"Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.