1.   Bonnie Raitt paid tribute to Charles Brown, a suave and heartbroken urban blues singer who died in January.

2.   A trim and sparkling setting for the very particular regional urban blues the name indicates and with an unusually friendly staff.

3.   Despite the down-at-the-heels urban blues featured on his series of albums, Hodge is actually a happy husband and father.

4.   It brings to mind sweaty Sunday morning sermons, backwoods juke joints and tough urban blues.

5.   These one-chord stomps and dark ruminations are closer to field hollars than post-war urban blues.

6.   Urban blues were selling millions of copies, and in Europe the jazz explosion was already drawing touring bands from the United States.

7.   We had needed an antidote to civilization, a quick and cheap respite from famous-visitor gridlock and prewinter urban blues.

8.   He takes the edge off the classic Chicago urban blues without watering them down by adding the swing that only a Californian could.