urban blues

noun

1. sometimes functioning as singular an extrovert and rhythmic style of blues, usually accompanied by a band Compare country blues

Example Sentences

He was one of eight Greenwich Village regulars — among the others were Mr. Van Ronk, Geoff Muldaur and Eric Von Schmidt — collected on a 1964 Elektra Records anthology, “The Blues Project: A Compendium of the Very Best on the Urban Blues Scene.”

From New York Times

Yet the urban blues – in which black women’s voices and concerns had been central since the 1920s – supplied the soundtrack to a black sexual underground that was remarkably widespread, durable, and even popular in the Jim Crow era.

From The Guardian

As they moved into the Maxwell Street area, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, they brought Mississippi Delta blues with them, and the music evolved into what is known as urban blues.

From Washington Times

But once he’d armed himself with an electric guitar, a gift from his uncle, in 1947, Waters went about inventing a new form, an urban blues, the Chicago blues, and this caught the attention of the Chess brothers.

From The New Yorker

At the same time, the best of the British Invasion expressed a kind of community awe toward the American urban blues.

From The New Yorker