Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews
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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.
Foreword Jim O'Neal viiAcknowledgments xiIntroduction xiiiPart 1 Ancient AgeYank Rache 113Jesse Thomas 18Alberts Hunter 36Grey Ghost 52Part 2 Postwar GloryJohn Grace Brim 71Jody Williams 91Rev. Johnny Williams 123Little Hudson 142Part 3 EsotericaTommy Brown 157Ralph Bass 190Cadillac Baby 112Richard Stamz 228Hosting Blues Before Sunrise 241Index 247
