Blues Before Sunrise
Sundays @ midnight on Studio One
Blues Before Sunrise is the Blues Heritage showcase. Each week, this Chicago-based, nationally syndicated public radio program explores, preserves and popularizes the various eras and genre of Blues Heritage. The show focuses on the first 50 years of recorded blues — from Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" (the very first blues record, recorded in August of 1920) to approximately 1970. This period defined the blues as America's true root music — the basis for the root of American popular music including gospel, jazz, rhythm & blues, soul, and rock n' roll.