Hughes and the Blues

In a recording released on the Essential Hughes Langston Hughes discusses the blues in relation to his own interest in the form and its relationship to poetry. The track is titled "Commentary -- I Sort of Went..." Perhaps he can help us to think about the question: what is the blues?



Below I have an included an image of a number of clippings of articles on Simone. Of particular interest is Langston Hughes' 1962 piece on Simone in the New York Post:


Source

Nina Simone File. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Clipping File, 1925-1974.