Answer to Question 1ANSWER: Answers will vary.
Singers usually compose songs one stanza at a time, working with traditional, proverbial expressions that rhyme.
Originality is not as important in blues as in commercial popular music generally, but singers do put together original phrases, lines, and stanzas, and mix these with traditional ones to compose songs they call their own.
Although sung in the first person, blues songs are not necessarily personal, autobiographical expressions. The singers draw on their own experiences, and other people's experiences, when composing blues songs from original and traditional expressions. For that reason, the listener should not assume that a blues singer is singing about himself or herself.
Blues singers usually compose blues songs about traditional topics such as love, sex, mistreatment, and hard times.
Answer to Question 2ANSWER: Answers will vary.
Blues are about mistreatment from lovers; religious songs are about relationship with the divine.
Blues look forward to a reward in this life; religious songs look forward to a reward in heaven.
Blues songs praise lovers; religious songs praise the Lord.
Blues songs and religious songs both contain blue notes and may be accompanied with instruments.
The blues singer and the preacher both speak for the community and its values.
Some Christians think blues songs are sinful because they associate them with activities such as drinking, gambling, cheating, stealing, and extra-marital sex.
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