This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through a broad and carefully paced span of musical settings, beginning with small-group swing […]
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Jazz Shadows and Late-Night Blues
The final hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise creates a particularly wide frame, beginning with performers associated with jazz […]
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From Early Swing to Shakey Jake’s Long Road
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise travels a broad musical road across its five hours, beginning with the buoyant, dance-minded language […]
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Blues at Chicago’s Furniture Mart
The third hour is this week’s special presentation: an encore of Blues at Chicago’s Furniture Mart. The theme turns on […]
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After-Hours Blues, Prayer, and a Final Albatross
The fifth hour gives Blues Before Sunrise a late-night shape without settling into one lane. Its opening sequence brings together […]
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From Swinging Rooms to Chicago Blues and Midnight Jazz
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through a wide field of blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, and vocal-group music, […]
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Three Cities, Three Voices, One Long Night
The first hour of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise has no declared special theme, but it develops a clear personality […]
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City Lights, Back Roads, and Midnight Water
This week’s five-hour Blues Before Sunrise moves with the freedom of a program that has no single theme hour, yet […]
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A Last Set of Love, Loss, and Low-Down Blues
Hour 5 gathers the program’s most wide-ranging late-night sequence, beginning with vocal groups and jazz singers before moving steadily toward […]
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From Swinging Horns to Sundown Blues
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise brings together five hours of old records with no single theme beyond the program’s enduring […]
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