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city blues

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noun

  1. (functioning as singular) jazz another name for urban blues

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Madison had become a haven for musicians who wanted to get away from the big city blues scene of Chicago three hours away.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2019

Today, Center residents, white and black, like to describe their town, population 5,100, as a sylvan paradise where “big city blues melt away.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 5, 2015

Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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