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Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews

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Description for Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews Paperback.

This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters.

The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077180
SKU
V9780252077180
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About Steve Cushing
Steve Cushing has been the host of Blues Before Sunrise for thirty years. He has served as anchor of WBEZ's nationwide broadcast of the Chicago Blues Festival, performs frequently as a drummer, and has produced several recordings by Magic Slim, Lurrie Bell, and Smokey Smothers.

Reviews for Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews
"A vibrant account of a bygone era when blues and gospel were at their artistic zenith. . . . Blues before Sunrise 2 is sure to long stand as a prime research source for Chicago bluesaholics."
ARSC Journal ". . . it would be difficult to find a figure more responsible for introducing a deeper appreciation of the blues to ... Read more

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