Hour Four of the Annual Ice & Snow Program is a study in arrival. After hours of frozen roads, southern […]
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Chicago in the Cold
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Electricity, Grit, and the City
Hour Four of Blues Before Sunrise is where the blues plugs in and leans forward. This is the sound of […]
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Santa Plugged In — Electric Blues, Holiday Grit, and No-Nonsense Cheer
Hour Four of Blues Before Sunrise – Annual Christmas Program #2 is where Christmas sheds its velvet gloves and steps […]
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Santa’s Got the Blues — Electric Guitars, Hard Truths, and Holiday Swagger
Hour Four of Blues Before Sunrise – Annual Christmas Program #1 plugs Christmas straight into the amplifier. This is where […]
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Howlin’ at the Crossroads
Hour Four is where Blues Before Sunrise plugs directly into the wall socket. This is the electric hour — raw, […]
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Rough Roads & Raw Wires: The Juke Joint Hour
Hour Four steps out onto the back roads—dust, heat, broken strings, beer-soaked stages, and the kind of raw sound that […]
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Electric Heat and the Chicago Night Shift
Hour Four jumps in with no warm-up and no apologies: this is the electric, urban, postwar blues engine running at […]
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Electric Truths & West Coast Fire: Big Mama, Ray Agee, and the Late-Night Barroom Blues
Hour Four jumps in with teeth showing—an hour built around the commanding voices and sharp-edged West Coast blues that defined […]
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Chicago Blues, Raw & Unfiltered
Hour 4 plunges straight into the tough, jagged heart of postwar Chicago blues — the kind of music forged in […]