Urban Blues may refer to: the descriptive Urban Blues was first used in the early part of the 20th century to differentiate between the more rural styles of Country blues artists. This term was later used in the 1940s to describe a type of sophisticated Blues written about the vagaries of city life life, its lyrics alternately dealing with romantic strife and the innumerable Good times to be easily observed in an urban area always city drives, the music is earmarked by a pronounced uptown emphasis, embracing everything from Jump blues blues to Jazz influenced stylistic to smooth, supper- Club- style vocals.