urban blues
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 • Jul. 11, 2019
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 • Mar. 4, 2019
Mr. Burgess’s singing style — gruff and often growling — recalled such urban blues shouters as Joe Turner and Smiley Lewis.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2017
“Understanding America requires understanding Chicago,” Dyja writes, and he offers up Chicago in full: The same city that gave us modern architecture and urban blues gave us McDonald’s and Playboy.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2013
It has shades of folk, honky-tonk, urban blues and revisionist country, but all of it can be called highly personal rock 'n' roll.
From Time Magazine Archive
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