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T-Bone Walker

Electric Blues in Full Flight

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Hour Four of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise shifts the program firmly into the electric era, where the blues grows […]

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Four Vegabonds

Late Night Blues, Soul, and the Sound of Sunrise

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The final hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise provides a fitting close to a program honoring the life and […]

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Albert Collins

Electric Heat and Hard-Edged Trut

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1285/electric-heat-and-hard-edged-trut.mp3

After the scholarship spotlight of Hour Three’s Robert M.W. Dixon interview, Hour Four of the February 15, 2026 Blues Before […]

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Albert King

Plugged In and Wide Awake: Blues That Refuse to Sit Still

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1244/plugged-in-and-wide-awake-blues-that-refuse-to-sit-still.mp3

Hour Four of the February 8, 2026 Blues Before Sunrise broadcast is where the night stops drifting and starts moving […]

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When the Amplifier Takes Over: Blues With Teeth and Truth

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Hour Four of Blues Before Sunrise (01/25/26) is where the program fully plugs in and leans forward. This hour captures […]

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St. Louis Jimmy

Last Call Before Dawn: Blues That Refuse to Sleep

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1224/last-call-before-dawn-blues-that-refuse-to-sleep.mp3

Hour Five of Blues Before Sunrise (01/25/26) is where the night stretches instead of ending. This hour doesn’t ease listeners […]

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T-Bone Walker

Electric Truth and After-Midnight Business

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1210/electric-truth-and-after-midnight-business.mp3

Hour Four of Blues Before Sunrise is where the lights are low, the amps are warm, and nobody’s pretending anymore. […]

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Bobo Jenkins

Electricity, Grit, and the City

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1162/electricity-grit-and-the-city.mp3

Hour Four of Blues Before Sunrise is where the blues plugs in and leans forward. This is the sound of […]

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Sonny Boy Williamson II

The Long Road Forward

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1159/the-long-road-forward.mp3

Hour Five of Blues Before Sunrise doesn’t feel like an ending so much as a reckoning. After hours spent tracing […]

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Homesick James

Rough Roads & Raw Wires: The Juke Joint Hour

https://bluesbeforesunrise.net/episode-player/1084/rough-roads-raw-wires-the-juke-joint-hour.mp3

Hour Four steps out onto the back roads—dust, heat, broken strings, beer-soaked stages, and the kind of raw sound that […]

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