Coming up this hour on Blues Before Sunrise, we’ve got a set that moves — from jumpin’ rhythm and blues, to early gospel shouts, harmony vocals, and some foot-stomping spirituals that’ll make you want to testify. It’s a broad slice of African-American musical culture — the sound of Saturday night and Sunday morning, back to back.

We kick things off with the unstoppable Tiny Bradshaw and his wild 1950s hit Gravy Train — a horn-heavy number that laid the groundwork for early rock & roll. Then we move to The Treniers, showmen through and through, with Rockin’ Is Our Business and the high-octane Uh-Oh — Get Out of the Car — part rhythm & blues, part slapstick vaudeville, all energy.

We’ll slow it down just a bit with a pair from Jimmy McCracklin, the West Coast bluesman whose piano grooves on The Wobble and Country Baby capture the swagger of Oakland blues at its peak.

Then it’s comedy and social commentary rolled into one with Pigmeat Markham’s Twenty Two — spoken-word rhythm over a tight beat, a precursor to rap before anyone had the word for it.

From there, we turn to Percy Mayfield, the poet of the blues. With What a Fool I Was and Hopeless, Percy wraps regret and heartbreak in velvet vocals — blues for grown folks, dressed in sophistication.

We lighten the mood with a run of vocal harmony: The Mills Brothers say farewell on Good-Bye Blues, then team up with Louis Armstrong on The Song Is Ended, and later with Ella Fitzgerald for the dreamy ballad Dedicated to You — jazz harmonies smoother than a glass of bourbon.

From there, we pivot into early gospel and jubilee quartets. The Four Southern Singers offer up rhythm and humor on Ham, Bone Am Sweet, followed by the Jones Boys Sing Band with Pickin’ a Rib, a rarity from the golden age of vocal quartets.

You’ll hear the Golden Gate Quartet swing on Dipsy Doodle, and the legendary Ethel Waters lets loose on Heebie Jeebies and the punchy Everybody Mess Around — two sides of the same showbiz coin.

And we close with a gospel finale: Love Comes Twinkling Down by the Southern Wonder Quartet, the solemn Will You Obey God from Elder J.E. Burch, and the classic Any Day Now from The Soul Stirrers, led by Sam Cooke during his early gospel years — a voice already touched by something divine.

It’s a full hour of swing, soul, and sanctified groove — this is what the jukebox and the church choir had in common. Stay right here… Blues Before Sunrise is just getting started.