Hour Four takes a different approach from the rest of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise. Rather than presenting a collection […]
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A Journey Through the Foundations of the Blues
Hour Three of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise reaches back to the earliest decades of recorded blues, exploring performances that […]
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A Month in the Life of the Blues: Recording Sessions from May 1938
Hour Three of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise takes listeners back to May 1938, when record companies Decca and Vocalion […]
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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 […]
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From Classic Blues Roots to Rock ’n’ Roll Fire
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise (4/26/26) unfolds as a wide-ranging journey through the evolution of blues and its many offshoots, […]
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Remembering Mike Vernon
This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise pays tribute to an important behind-the-scenes figure in the blues revival: the late […]
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Five Hours of Blues History – From Swing to the Delta and Back Again
This week’s edition of Blues Before Sunrise travels across nearly the entire landscape of American blues and jazz history. Over […]
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