#sam charters

[meatthawsmoth]

There were more solo blues and accompaniments in 1929, and the first of [Lonnie Johnson's] duets with Eddie Lang was released in January. Lang was a fine white guitarist, who recorded with Lonnie under the name Blind Willie Dunn. He was one of the few guitarists in Lonnie's class and they were very exciting together. Lang was the finer musician, and had probably more knowledge of the guitar's harmonic possibilities than any musician of his period, but Lonnie had an emotional sense and emotional intensity that shaded Lang's brilliance. Their duets were always marked with a careful respect for each other's abilities.

Sam Charters, The Country Blues

[martincolyer]

At the Edge of Town / A Song for Richard Manuel

Every April, I think about Richard Manuel, born on April 3, 1943, in Stratford, Ontario. I still remember where I was in March 1986, when I heard that he had taken his own life — the magazine art department of The Observer newspaper. I remember feeling unmoored for days, which seems too much of a reaction for someone I hadn’t met or known personally, but The Band had been such an important…

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[martincolyer]

For Sam

I woke up at 5am on the day we were to go to Uppsala to meet Annie, who was going to read some of Sam’s poetry at an evening performance at the English Bookshop, during Uppsala’s yearly Culture Night. Annie had asked me to say something about collaborating with Sam on a book of poems and photographs that we had published near the end of his life.

I awoke with thoughts going around my head of what…

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[martincolyer]

Five Things Extra: thinking about Sam Charters and a few nice things

Five Things Extra: Sam Charters

I woke up at 5am on the day we were to go to Uppsala to meet Annie, who was going to read some of Sam’s poetry at an evening performance at the English Bookshop, during Uppsala’s yearly Culture Night. Annie had asked me to say something about collaborating with Sam on a book of poems and photographs that we had published near the end of his life.

 I awoke with thoughts going around my head of…

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[nprfreshair]

Fresh Air Remembers Blues And Jazz Historian Samuel Charters

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.

Here’s what Charters said when he and Terry spoke in ‘87 about searching for bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins:

“I was sitting in my car at a street corner and a car pulled up beside me and a man rolled down the window and said, ‘Are you looking for me?’ And I said, ‘You Lightnin’?’ And he said, ‘That’s right.’ So I rented a guitar for him, got a bottle of gin. We went back to the little shabby room where he was living and we made his first LP.” 

Photo: Sam Charters, shown in 1963, was a jug player at the Vanguard. Credit Ann Charters

[ginzyblog]

More Jazz and The Beat Generation - Sam Charters on Jack Kerouac's Jazz

http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/sam-charters-jack-kerouacs-jazz-1-intro.html

[durraknw0327-blog]

Complete Folkways Recordings

Complete Folkways Recordings Sam Charters first recorded Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence on Andros Island in July 1958. Spence, long out of work as a stonemason, had used his time to perfect a unique style of playing. Charters took Spence as a model for what he wanted to hear in other Bahamian guitarists. C0mplёtе F0lкwαys Reс0rd¡nɡs