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Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews
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Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews Hardback - 2010

by Steve Cushing; Foreword by Jim O'Neal

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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 who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.

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  • Title Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews
  • Author Steve Cushing; Foreword by Jim O'Neal
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date 2010-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780252033018 / 0252033019
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Blues musicians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009027102
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

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.

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