Hour One of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise is a trip back to the crossroads of jazz and blues — […]
Swing to Shout: The Pulse of Postwar Blues
Hour Two of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise glows with that unmistakable mid-century energy — the moment when jump blues, […]
Jim O’Neal: The Living Blues Story Begin
Hour Three of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise marks the start of one of the most important interviews in the […]
Chronicling the Blues: Jim O’Neal and the Sound of Living History
Hour Four continues the extended interview with Jim O’Neal, the founder of Living Blues magazine and one of the most […]
The Delta Amplified: From Lockwood to Bland
Hour Five of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise feels like the living echo of Jim O’Neal’s life’s work. After two […]
After the Conversation: The Jazz Oasis
After two hours spent in the company of Jim O’Neal—archivist, label founder, and chronicler of the modern Blues revival—Hour Six […]
SWINGIN’ SKELETONS & SCAREDY-CAT JAZZ: THE HAUNTED ORIGINS OF BLUES HALLOWEEN
Hour One of Blues Before Sunrise’s annual Halloween broadcast dives headlong into the musical graveyard — a ghostly revue where […]
GRAVEYARD JUMP & DEVIL BOOGIE: R&B NIGHTMARES OF THE 1950s
Hour Two of Blues Before Sunrise’s Halloween broadcast turns the clock forward to the 1950s, a golden age of rhythm […]
HAUNTED BLUES: GHOSTS, DEVILS & THE SUPERNATURAL SOUTH
If the earlier hours of the BBS Annual Halloween Show crept around the edges of the graveyard, Hour Three goes […]
MOJO, HOODOO, AND THE BLUES SPELL
If the earlier hours of the Blues Before Sunrise Halloween marathon were about ghosts, devils, and haunted hearts, Hour Four […]