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Speakers seeped classic blues tunes.

Darius then added a missing note to the scale to form, like magic, a classic blues scale.

But White, whom the New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote combines the “sass of a classic blues mama with the skill of a Broadway star,” said she didn’t want her Hermes to be De Shields 2.0.

By then, we understand that “Trouble in Mind,” its title taken from a classic blues song about suicide, is, for all its backstage comedy, a tragedy of waste — not, like lynching, the waste of what happens so much as the waste of what doesn’t.

Urged by Richards, Mr. Watts began to listen to classic blues and early rock.