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Birmingham Quartets, Blues Royalty, and Deep Roots Traditions

This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise travels through nearly every corner of vintage Black American music, weaving together jazz, […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise (4/26/26) unfolds as a wide-ranging journey through the evolution of blues and its many offshoots, […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise (4/19/26) centers on a powerful and often underappreciated force in blues history—the postwar piano player. […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise (4/12/26) operates without a formal theme, but that absence becomes its greatest strength. Free from […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise builds around one of the most distinctive voices in blues history—pianist, songwriter, and storyteller Roosevelt […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise lives up to its “No Special Theme” promise by delivering something even better—a seamless, five-hour […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise drops the idea of a central theme and instead leans into something even more powerful—pure […]

. This week’s Blues Before Sunrise delivers one of those deep, immersive listening experiences that defines the program at its best—anchored by […]

This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise pays tribute to an important behind-the-scenes figure in the blues revival: the late […]

This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise travels across nearly the entire landscape of American blues and jazz history. Over […]