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I'm very sorry indeed to learn of the death of Samuel Barclay Charters. He died at his home in Sweden on Wednesday this week, at the age...

Blind Willie McTell died at 4.25am local time in Milledgeville State Hospital, Georgia, 55 years ago today. For an account of the circu...

I'm giving a short series of talks in the US again this year, from late September to early October; the last two events both feature Bli...

I'm delighted to learn, thanks to Mr. Jim Stagg, bass guitarist of the rather good band Cooper Black, that Blind Willie's original g...

Eubie Blake died 30 years ago today, claiming to be 100. Not quite. But he could make any number of other claims. Here he is at a genuine 93...

Ida Cox, born 1896, was one of the "classic" pre-war blues singers, and one whose records Blind Willie McTell attended to. She die...