Samuel Charters
Samuel Barclay Charters ( born August 1, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American blues musician and researcher.
Life
He grew up in Pittsburgh. His interest in blues music was awakened when he heard Bessie Smith's version of " Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out ". Charters obtained in 1949 a degree at Sacramento City College. In 1951 he moved to New Orleans, where he studied after his military service and jazz began to be interested in the rural blues. He worked as a field researcher and made recordings for Folkways and later for The Bahamas on site.
1959 Charters published his first book The Country Blues. The book and the parallel released album of the same name helped to raise the general interest of the white population in the Blues, and contributed to the folk and blues revival of the early 1960s at.
At Charters accomplishments is the rediscovery of Lightnin ' Hopkins. In 1964 he joined Dave Van Ronk 's Ragtime Jug Stompers. A little later, he founded the band with Danny Kalb The New Strangers.
From 1966 to 1970 he produced the albums of the anti-Vietnam War group Country Joe and the Fish (except their last album CJ Fish by 1970). Even after the dissolution of the group, he produced sampler albums and occasional reunions of the group ( so the album Reunion 1977)
Samuel Charters published more books on the blues, such as Blues Faces in 2000. As an author, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In addition to the books, he also wrote liner notes for numerous albums. In addition, he also worked as a record producer.