Blues Before Sunrise

Each week this Chicago based, nationally syndicated public radio program explores, preserves, and popularizes the various eras and genre of Blues Heritage.

The focus of this award winning program is on the first fifty years of recorded Blues, starting with the very first Blues record, Crazy Blues by Mamie Smith recorded in When historians and musicologists refer to Blues as Americas Root music, its the Blues recorded during this period to which they refer. Imagine walking through the rooms that house the record collection at the Smithsonian Institution, the walls lined from floor to ceiling with shelves of Blues records — Blues from every era and stylistic school ever known.

Blues Before Sunrise is the program that pulls the records off the shelf and plays them for you, profiling the figures, seminal and obscure, that shaped this music; helping to breathe life into these neglected pioneers of popular culture, tracing their development and highlighting their relevance down through the decades. Blues Before Sunrise is not just another record show, its a cultural treasure trove, the program where every week is Black History Month!

Blues Before Sunrise is the only radio show regularly playing these rare recordings. In addition to playing the records from this historic era, over the years Blues Before Sunrise has made it a part of its mission to talk to the people who have made the music. Host Steve Cushing has conducted extensive, in-depth interviews with literally scores of Blues people including singers and players, record producers, managers, and disc jockeys.

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These Bluesmen and Blueswomen have fascinating stories to share about their lives and careers, their recordings, and the by-gone world that spawned the Blues. These stories are humorous and dramatic and help bring to life this largely undocumented chapter of African-American Heritage.

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