The third hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise is built around a return to the program’s 1990 interview with […]
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Pre-War Voices on a Long Blues Road
The third hour of Blues Before Sunrise offers one of the week’s deepest excursions into pre-war blues, moving through an […]
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Blues at Chicago’s Furniture Mart
The third hour is this week’s special presentation: an encore of Blues at Chicago’s Furniture Mart. The theme turns on […]
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Back Roads, Barrooms, and Piano Blues
Hour 3 takes the program into a broad pre-war field without reducing that music to a single sound. Calvin Frazier […]
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Piano, Quartets, and a Turning Wheel
Hour 3 brings together several distinct strands of the Blues Before Sunrise sound: Brownie McGhee’s blues performances, Jimmy Blythe’s piano […]
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Pre-War Voices, Piano, and Deep Blue Sea Blues
The third hour of Blues Before Sunrise draws together a wide array of pre-war blues recordings, with singers, pianists, vocal […]
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Pre-War Voices in Close Conversation
Hour 3 turns toward an earlier body of blues recordings, bringing together pianists, guitarists, singers, duos, and string-band performers in […]
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Deep Blues, Changing Voices
Hour 3 of Blues Before Sunrise assembles one of the week’s most concentrated blues sequences, moving through a large roster […]
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Georgia Tom Dorsey: secular sides and sacred turns
Hour 3 gives Blues Before Sunrise its defining feature for August 30: an extended Georgia Tom Dorsey program that traces […]
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Shellac Sparks and Saturday-Night Fire
The third hour reaches into the prewar record shelf and finds music that remains immediate. Pinetop Smith’s driving piano, Sippie […]