4. Tom Jones - Praise & Blame On Praise & Blame, Tom Jones rustles up a bunch of raucous minimal blues riffs in the skeletal style of The White Stripes and The Black Keys, adds a few more subtly-textured arrangements, and applies them to a sturdy set of blues and gospel standards.
"He sounds like Eric Clapton, B. B. King, me, Hendrix, everybody, man!" Mr. Sullivan is just graduating from middle school, but at a time when most teenagers are getting ready for summer vacation, he's getting ready to tour to promote his new album, "Getting There" (SuperStar Records), a set of blues, rock, rockabilly and Beatlesesque pop songs, sung in his sweet, guileless voice.
The day before, in an old opera house in Midtown Manhattan, Sergeant Henry had donned a different set of blues -- a graduation cap and gown -- and collected a doctoral degree in criminal justice from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
In glass display cases at his exhibition were Paula Abdul's "Spellbound" CD in the shell of a giant metal compact case; a Slayer single in a squishy plastic pack full of skulls floating around in fake red blood; and a beautiful wooden-looking radio replica that held a multi-disc set of blues and jazz from Mercury Records.
In a revealing recording of a 1983 engagement at a prison in Westville, Indiana, one can hear the two sides of Little Milton: first, for the male convicts, giving a set of blues and heartaching soul numbers, but then, as the men file out and the female prisoners take their seats, presenting a peppier, sexier personality.
George exploded on to the tiny stage with charismatic energy - a louche, potbellied 47-year-old with large sensuous features in a chalkstripe suit and fedora - who danced, sang, posed and pouted his way through a set of blues favourites with John Chilton's Feetwarmers, throwing shapes and scattering wisecracks as he went.
It also has a set of blue-chip international investors, including Royal Bank of Scotland.
A white coat and stethoscope, or a set of blue scrubs, for example, tells you that you can ask for medical help and expect to receive care.
As Nusseibeh's attention alternated among the coffee, his cigarette, and a set of blue worry beads, he managed to describe the current disaster "through our prism," as if this were a kind of tutorial.
The antiques run the gamut from state beds to Savonnerie rugs to a set of blue porcelain vases with gilded bronze mounts that Mr. Lagerfeld said belong to Louis XVI's brother, the Comte de Provence.
Sam Smith's Friday afternoon set of blue-eyed soul tended towards the insipid, but he was more impactful a few hours later, lending his guest vocal to Disclosure's euphoric house.
