Hour Two of Blues Before Sunrise – Annual Christmas Program #1 brings movement back into the room. After the stark […]
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Jump, Shout, and Sanctify
Hour Two of Blues Before Sunrise is where the show widens its stance. This is the crossroads hour — jump […]
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Roots on the Radio: The American Jukebox Hour
Hour Two broadens the landscape—wider highways, deeper roots, and a sense of American musical sprawl. This hour feels like a […]
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Jump, Jive, Gospel, and the Big Sweep of Mid-Century Blues
Hour Two is a rolling journey through the heart of postwar rhythm, jump blues, boogie-woogie, and mid-century gospel uplift—a broad, […]
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Jump, Jive & Jukebox Heat: The Rise of Post-War R&B
Hour Two shifts the energy upward—this is the hour where Blues Before Sunrise leans into the post-war transition from straight […]
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Jump, Jive, and Groove: R&B’s Roaring Pulse
Hour 2 of Blues Before Sunrise keeps the energy high with a deep dive into the postwar rhythm & blues […]
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Swing to Shout: The Pulse of Postwar Blues
Hour Two of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise glows with that unmistakable mid-century energy — the moment when jump blues, […]
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GRAVEYARD JUMP & DEVIL BOOGIE: R&B NIGHTMARES OF THE 1950s
Hour Two of Blues Before Sunrise’s Halloween broadcast turns the clock forward to the 1950s, a golden age of rhythm […]
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SAMMY PRICE, ETHEL WATERS & THE VINTAGE GOSPEL SET
Hour Two of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise drifts elegantly between the sacred and the secular, blending the church-born passion […]
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SHE’S GOT THE POWER: WOMEN WHO BUILT R&B
The second hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise is a salute to the powerhouse women who carried the blues […]