These race series recorded all sorts of interesting hot jazz, urban and rural blues, and gospel.

He is regarded as one of the earliest urban blues performers, with no pronounced rural influences.

And Mr. Taylor knows his music as well; jazz ideas would mingle with urban blues.

These four musicians worked together as a team to provide a selection of high-quality white urban blues.

Tedeschi's live shows are by no means straight-ahead urban blues.

Yet, wafting over the sound system is a connoisseur's collection of urban blues.

Maxwell Street is considered to be the birthplace of the "electric, urban blues", a style of music which led directly to rock & roll.

The little-recorded Robert Johnson combined elements of urban and rural blues.

Boogie-woogie was another important style of 1930s and early 1940s urban blues.

"We like to offer a real cross-section of rural and urban blues," he said.