The third hour of Blues Before Sunrise offers one of the week’s deepest excursions into pre-war blues, moving through an […]
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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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Back Roads, Barrooms, and Piano Blues
Hour 3 takes the program into a broad pre-war field without reducing that music to a single sound. Calvin Frazier […]
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Pre-War Voices, Piano, and Deep Blue Sea Blues
The third hour of Blues Before Sunrise draws together a wide array of pre-war blues recordings, with singers, pianists, vocal […]
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Pre-War Voices in Close Conversation
Hour 3 turns toward an earlier body of blues recordings, bringing together pianists, guitarists, singers, duos, and string-band performers in […]
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Prewar Reflections and the Roots of Accompaniment
Hour Three of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise steps back in time, tracing the origins of the accompanist’s art long […]
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The Roots Run Deep
Hour 3 of this week’s Blues Before Sunrise dives headfirst into the early recordings and pre-war blues traditions that form […]
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The Deep Blues Truth
This hour plunges headfirst into the pain, poetry, and raw storytelling that defines the deepest blues. We begin with Leroy […]
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Recorded In July
Up next, we’re rolling back the clock to the raw, rootsy sounds of pre-war country blues — 78s, field recordings, […]
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Sanctified Blues and Testified Truths
Hour 3 of Blues Before Sunrise takes listeners deep into the spiritual crossroads where early gospel, acoustic blues, and sanctified […]