According to the latest edition of Men’s Health magazine, the city of Detroit is the second-saddest city in the country. St. Petersburg, Fla., was voted the saddest.
I know what you’re thinking. Can’t Detroit do anything right? Can’t it even win a saddest city competition?
Apparently, the judges looked at unemployment, the use of antidepressants and the number of people who report “feeling the blues.”
Memphis, Tenn., which is widely regarded as the home of blues music, was the third-saddest city.
I think I see the problem. Just because some guy in Detroit sings the blues, it doesn’t mean he actually has the blues. Unless, of course, you don’t buy his records or put a buck in his jar. That’s enough to give anyone a real bad case of the lowdown blues.

According to the latest edition of Men’s Health magazine, the city of Detroit is the second-saddest city in the country. St. Petersburg, Fla., was voted the saddest.
I know what you’re thinking. Can’t Detroit do anything right? Can’t it even win a saddest city competition?
Apparently, the judges looked at unemployment, the use of antidepressants and the number of people who report “feeling the blues.”
Memphis, Tenn., which is widely regarded as the home of blues music, was the third-saddest city.
I think I see the problem. Just because some guy in Detroit sings the blues, it doesn’t mean he actually has the blues. Unless, of course, you don’t buy his records or put a buck in his jar. That’s enough to give anyone a real bad case of the lowdown blues.