Samuel Charters, a vital historian of American blues, folk and jazz who helped introduce a generation of music lovers to Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell and other performers, died Wednesday in ...

Perhaps the most hilarious send-up of modern blues takes place in the 2001 film adaptation of Ghost World. Steve Buscemi’s character gets upset that a personal hero of his, a little-known old bluesman ...

The conventional criticism of Samuel Charters as a pioneering writer on the blues has long been that he romanticised the music and its practitioners, especially in his first, groundbreaking book, The ...

NEW YORK — Samuel Charters, whose books and field research helped detonate the blues and folk music revival of the 1960s and 1970s, died Wednesday at his home in Arsta, Sweden. He was 85. The cause ...

Enjoy the blues of acclaimed Maine singer-songwriter Samuel James at Bates College’s new outdoor music series, Concerts on the Quad. Samuel James will perform solo at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, on ...

Samuel Charters, who has died aged 85, was a prolific record producer, historian of jazz and ragtime, an early explorer of the terrain of world music, musician, poet and novelist, but he was best ...

Samuel Charters plays the jug with folk legend Dave Van Ronk’s band in 1963 in New York City. Charters, a record producer and writer on music history, died at 85 in Sweden. (Jack Kanthal/Associated ...

With the miracle publication of blues researchers Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's unfinished monolith Blues Come to Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2019), it is worth reconsidering the first ...

Charters helped ignite the blues revival of the '50s and '60s. He made field recordings of forgotten and previously undiscovered performers. He also wrote two books. He died Wednesday; he was 85. This ...