Hour 4 turns the spotlight fully toward Lowell Fulson and a collection that offers a sustained look at recordings made before his Chess/Checker period. The featured source is Baby Won’t You Jump With Me, a two-LP set issued in Sweden on the Crown Prince label. The show notes describe it as a largely overlooked release and emphasize that its tracks are clean sounding. For Blues Before Sunrise, the set provides an opportunity to spend an entire hour with one artist while tracing a broad selection of Fulson titles.

The title track, “Baby Won’t You Jump With Me,” begins the feature and immediately establishes the hour’s concentrated format. Instead of moving rapidly between performers, the program allows Fulson’s work to define the hour from start to finish. “Rainy Day” and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business” follow, then “Jukebox Shuffle,” giving the sequence a changing set of titles without changing its central musical voice. That consistency is one of the hour’s strengths: every selection adds to the feature rather than interrupting it.

“Mama Bring Your Clothes…” continues the sequence, followed by “Men Old Lonesome Song” and “My Daily Prayer.” The titles alone point to the breadth of material gathered for the set, and the program wisely lets that variety emerge through the progression of the playlist rather than imposing an outside narrative on it. “I’ve Been Mistreated” and “Trouble Blues” extend the run, placing two blues-titled selections at the center of the hour. Their position reinforces the focus on Fulson’s catalog while maintaining forward movement.

“I Want to See My Baby” and “You’re Going to Miss Me” carry the feature onward, followed by “Cold Hearted Woman” and “Just a Poor Boy.” The hour’s length makes room for these titles to be heard as a sequence rather than isolated entries. That is particularly valuable with a compilation-oriented source such as Baby Won’t You Jump With Me, where the pleasure lies not only in individual tracks but also in hearing how the collection unfolds over time.

“Back Home Blues” leads into “Tears at Sunrise,” a title that fits especially well within the larger atmosphere of Blues Before Sunrise without requiring any claim about its subject or arrangement. The program’s placement of such a title late in the hour helps give the feature a sense of shape. “Jam That Boogie” follows, then “Don’t Be So Evil,” shifting the titles again as the set approaches its conclusion.

“Highway 99” closes the Fulson hour. It is an effective final selection for a feature concerned with a long stretch of recordings and an artist’s pre-Chess/Checker work. The show notes identify Jonas Bernholm as someone who rarely reissued postwar blues, making this Crown Prince set a particularly notable exception within that work. That context lends the hour added value: the program is not merely presenting a list of Lowell Fulson tracks, but returning attention to a two-LP release that listeners may not encounter often.

The feature also complements the rest of this week’s program. Hour 3 looks back through conversation and recollection with Brewer Phillips, while Hour 4 concentrates on a single artist through recorded music. Both segments reflect the program’s commitment to placing blues history in a living listening context. Fulson’s hour does so through a wide-ranging run of titles, presented in the order that lets the collection speak for itself.

Hour 4 Playlist

Baby Won’t You Jump With Me — Lowell Fulson

Rainy Day — Lowell Fulson

Ain’t Nobody’s Business — Lowell Fulson

Jukebox Shuffle — Lowell Fulson

Mama Bring Your Clothes… — Lowell Fulson

Men Old Lonesome Song — Lowell Fulson

My Daily Prayer — Lowell Fulson

I’ve Been Mistreated — Lowell Fulson

Trouble Blues — Lowell Fulson

I Want to See My Baby — Lowell Fulson

You’re Going to Miss Me — Lowell Fulson

Cold Hearted Woman — Lowell Fulson

Just a Poor Boy — Lowell Fulson

Back Home Blues — Lowell Fulson

Tears at Sunrise — Lowell Fulson

Jam That Boogie — Lowell Fulson

Don’t Be So Evil — Lowell Fulson

Highway 99 — Lowell Fulson