Blues Before Sunrise
- Wednesday 11pm-Thursday 12am
- Saturday 3-6pm
Genre:
Blues Music
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Steve Cushing is a Chicago broadcaster with years of experience in playing the Blues. Blues Before Sunrise is a program of historical Blues and related music which takes you back to some of the earliest days of the genre.
Blues Before Sunrise showcases blues as part of a cultural landscape that includes jump and jive, rhythm and blues, swing, doo wop, gospel, comedy, and recitation, and never is the music presented as kitsch or retro fashion in the way that some music has been exploited and trivialized. For Cushing the blues is a living African-American tradition with deep roots.
For 17 years DJ Steve Cushing has aired Blues Before Sunrise, the "Blues Heritage Showcase", over Chicago's public radio station 91.5FM WBEZ, and for the last six years the rest of the country has also had a chance to hear his show via satellite syndication. Blues Before Sunrise has long served an audience that includes loyal home listeners, musicians lounging on break, lovers in their living rooms, cab drivers and other service workers pulling the graveyard, and even teen airwave surfers discovering an entire musical world peopled by cats who were hip before them.
