Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

When developing your blues name you must take great care to do so in the correct way. Although there are great blues musicians who do not follow the law of blues members naming, most great bluesmen follow the creating a blues name rules.

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The simplest way to describe how to make a blues name is to use the following formula:

affliction + fruit + President name = Blues name

In this blog, I will discuss good blues afflictions and bad blues afflictions. Some afflictions work better than others. For example blindness tends to be a very bluesy affliction, where as sexually transmitted diseases tend to be not bluesy at all.

Blind Lemon Pledge works better that Chlamydia Grapefruit Jefferson.

Other good afflictions include Limpy, Burning, Coughing, Anorexic, and Stoned. Picking your nose is not an affliction, nor is a bloody nose because you picked your nose. Nosebleed can be a cool blues name, but epistaxis (the medical term) is not. That goes to say, don’t pick a medical term to be your blues name. Cardiomeagaly, Urosepsis, Hyperphlegmulosis and Neurogenic make very poor blues names. Although infarcted, paralyzed and possibly even constipated work to some extent.

Be aware when picking your affliction may lead some to believe that you are actually afflicted with your affliction. You may unintentionally offend someone calling yourself blind, especially if your vision is 20/20 without glasses. Giving yourself the wrong affliction can also lead to problems with the opposite sex. Giving yourself a blues name like Chlamydia Grapefruit Jefferson, will cause you to have many lonely and sleepless nights.