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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 […]

Posted in: Hour 4
Albert Collins

Electric Heat and Hard-Edged Trut

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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

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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

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

Posted in: Hour 4
T-Bone Walker

Electric Truth and After-Midnight Business

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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

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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

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

Posted in: Hour 4
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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Little Walter

Electric Heat and the Chicago Night Shift

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

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