Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews
Steve Cushing
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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ARSC Journal ". . . it would be difficult to find a figure more responsible for introducing a deeper appreciation of the blues to ... Read more