Blues Before Sunrise

Lefty Bates and the Long Reach of Chicago Rhythm

This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through five hours of blues, R&B, jazz, vocal groups, spiritual material, and early recordings […]

This edition of Blues Before Sunrise moves through an unusually wide field of blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, vocal-group […]

This edition of Blues Before Sunrise moves through five hours of blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, jazz-leaning material, and late-night […]

This edition of *Blues Before Sunrise* is built like a long summer day: it begins in a hazy jazz glow, […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, the highway is calling. The August 16 edition of the five-hour blues broadcast takes […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, Steve Cushing presents a program built around the remarkable piano work of Will Ezell, […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, there is no single theme—and that is part of the fun. Instead, Steve Cushing […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, Steve Cushing shines the spotlight on one of the most distinctive sounds in American […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, Steve Cushing builds an entire five-hour broadcast around a single word: “Midnight.” It may […]

This week on Blues Before Sunrise, Steve Cushing delivers another carefully curated journey through the history of blues music, combining […]