Blues radio online covers the Delta and Chicago traditions, electric blues, blues-rock and the soul and jazz the blues fed into. The stations below come from the open Radio Browser directory, ordered by listener votes — Jazz Radio Blues from France, Blues Radio from Greece at 320kbps, 1.FM Blues Radio at 256kbps and 181.FM True Blues are among the most-voted. Everything plays in your browser, 15 minutes a day free, with no account and no download.
Among the most-voted in the directory are Jazz Radio Blues, Blues Radio (Greece), 1.FM Blues Radio and 181.FM True Blues.
Yes. Blues Radio streams at 320kbps and 1.FM Blues Radio at 256kbps.
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Blues stations play the tradition — acoustic, Delta and Chicago blues and their descendants. Blues-rock stations lean on guitar-led rock from the 60s onward; many blues stations play both.
The quickest way to stream blues radio online is in your browser: open the blues genre page on 72FM, press play on any station, and you're listening. No app, no account needed to start. Blues radio covers a wide range — from the spare Delta recordings of the 1930s to the electrified Chicago sound of the 1950s to Texas shuffle and the British blues revival — and a good station does the historical contextualising for you. This guide maps the main strands, names a few key artists in each, and explains how to match blues sub-genres to the moment.
Read the full guide: Blues Radio Online: The Roots of It All — A Listener's Guide