Headline: no medicine like the blues

Black Magic, by Yvonne P. Chireau,  looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure―the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements―from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century.

(University of California Press, 2003)

Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars and the general public, she describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking, writing richly detailed history that presents the voices and experiences of African Americans and shows how magic has informed their culture.

However, blues healing was primarily focused on the fixing of relationships that had gone awry, and the resolution of oppressive romantic entanglements.

Bullshit!
Blues' healing
Ambience was rather depressive, so there was the blues healing from some by aspectacular.