Chicago Blues - Blues Before Sunrise

Electric Heat and the Chicago Night Shift

Hour Four jumps in with no warm-up and no apologies: this is the electric, urban, postwar blues engine running at […]

Hour 4 plunges straight into the tough, jagged heart of postwar Chicago blues — the kind of music forged in […]

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise travels deep into the grooves of blues history, radio rhythm, and soul evolution. Across five […]

Hour Four of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise explodes with the sound of the Chicago electric era at its most […]

Hour Five of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise draws the curtain with a sweeping, emotional journey that brings together blues, […]

Hour 3 of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise marks the beginning of our exclusive feature: the 2000 Hyde Park interview […]

Hour 4 of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise continues our celebration of Jody Williams, picking up where the intimate interview […]

Hour 5 of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise closes our special tribute to Chicago guitarist Jody Williams with a moving […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, we celebrate the life, music, and legacy of one of Chicago’s most inventive and […]

The fourth hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise delivers a raw and unfiltered set that showcases Chicago’s postwar sound […]