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The term “blues” in music came into use around the late 1800s in the United States. It is named after a common metaphor for sadness used by enslaved people in the form of ” having the blues.” The music form is well known for its emotional, down-and-out feeling, which, again, comes back to the idea of sadness or “the blues.” Another theory traces the name back to the days when enslaved Africans sang spirituals in the fields, often expressing melancholy and despair. These “work songs” became known as “blue notes.” There have been several stories and myths about its origin but most historians agree it’s a form of music developed by African Americans to express hardship and struggle. The first recorded “blues” song was “I Got the Blues and I Can’t Be Satisfied” in 1925, performed by a woman named