Latest Episodes – Page 33 – Blues Before Sunrise

Blues Without Borders

The final hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise is a genre-spanning journey, pulling in smooth harmony groups, jazz organ […]

Hour #1 is a swinging salute to the Calloway siblings—Cab and Blanche—whose flamboyant energy and rhythmic daring helped define the […]

This hour is a jukebox party—Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown, and Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson bring bawdy, brassy rhythm and blues to […]

The centerpiece of this week’s show is Hour #3: a deep dive into rare recordings from the University of Chicago […]

T-Bone Walker and Peewee Crayton open this hour with their smooth, fluid guitar lines, giving blues a jazzy sophistication. Lloyd […]

The show concludes with a genre-spanning blend that bridges jazz, soul, gospel, and blues. The Delta Rhythm Boys and Milt […]

We start things off with a jumpin’ mix of Kansas City swing and Harlem stride piano — a heady, fast-paced […]

This hour lives at the crossroads of the sacred and the profane. It opens with the hard-driving boogie of Big […]

This hour plunges headfirst into the pain, poetry, and raw storytelling that defines the deepest blues. We begin with Leroy […]

Things get loud in Hour 4—gritty, groovy, and electrically charged. It’s post-war blues in all its rugged glory. We begin […]