In 1957, Elvis Presley’s holiday song “Blue Christmas” was first ... only reason people feel what is known as the “holiday blues.” What are the holiday blues? Sign up for our Newsletters ...

December is typically filled with music, laughter, lights, and family, but for some, it can mark the beginning of what mental health experts call the 'holiday blues.' This is a pervasive sense of ...

So, in a way, what makes a blues song blue is its lyrics. Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday", a song so unhappy it apparently drove some of its listeners to suicide, would be a jazz ballad if it ...