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Sonny Thompson, a Busy Month in 1938, and Five Hours of Musical Discovery

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise delivers another wide-ranging journey through the first fifty years of recorded Black music, highlighted by […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise takes listeners on a remarkable journey through blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, and vocal […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise shines a spotlight on one of the most influential vocal groups in American music history: […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise has no formal theme, but that freedom allows the program to do what it does […]

This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise combines two powerful themes: a tribute to the explosive legacy of Little Richard […]

This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise marks the conclusion of one of the program’s longest-running archival journeys: the 60-week […]

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 […]