I. PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF BOOKS, RELATED WRITINGS, RESEARCH MATERIALS, FIELD NOTES, MUSICIAN S CONTRACTS, STUDIO SESSION LISTINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS

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1 I. PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF BOOKS, RELATED WRITINGS, RESEARCH MATERIALS, FIELD NOTES, MUSICIAN S CONTRACTS, STUDIO SESSION LISTINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS I A. Books Written and Recordings Produced by Samuel Charters I A1. Books Related to the Study of African American Music by Samuel Charters JAZZ: NEW ORLEANS, Belleville, NJ: Walter C. Allen, Paperback first edition. Dodd B 5601 Walter C. Allen was a research chemist and jazz hobbiest who published a series of Jazz Monographs, of which this was Number 2. He was responsible for typing the manuscript and designing the book, which came out a few months after I sent him the manuscript. The book had involved several years of research in New Orleans and then a long period of writing, and my advance against royalties from Walter was $5, which even that long ago didn t really seem like a lot of money. This copy is inscribed to Ann Charters. JAZZ NEW ORLEANS New York: Oak Publication Reprint. Paperback reprint. Dodd A 4496 With new material, and a new introduction. The end date in the title of the book was changed to reflect the additions. There had been such a strong reaction to the first publication of the book that I welcomed the opportunity to rewrite some of the biographies and add new material which had come to light on Buddy Bolden on subsequent trips to New Orleans. 2nd printing. Da Capo Reprint. Hardcover, institutional red binding, no dust jacket. Offset from the revised Oak edition. New York, Da Capo, Dodd B 5536 COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER. Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: Anasi, c1976. Dodd A 4495 THE COUNTRY BLUES New York: Rinehart & Company, Dodd B 5571 This copy includes the promotional portrait distributed with review copies. This book was the result of a question by jazz writer Nat Hentoff after a radio program when he and Gunther Schuller had interviewed me about Jazz: New Orleans, and played selections from the Folkways albums. He asked me what I was doing, and I said I wanted to write a book about the blues. He told me to send a sample to editor Ted Amundsen at Rinehart. I did the sample in a week, took it to the Rinehart office on a Thursday, and on Monday there was a telegram in the 1

2 mailbox of the building on Broadway where I was living in a sculptor s studio telling me that they wanted to publish the book, they had an English publisher, and would I come to the office and sign a contract. I did the additional field research for the book in the December and January, then after Ann and I were married in March, 1959, I wrote the book in 36 days in our one room basement apartment, working at night at our small kitchen table while Ann slept. A copy used for reprinting. [not transferred] This is a copy of the first edition, without dust wrapper, but it was disassembled and then rebound in the original boards for the Da Capo reprint. This copy was given by Moe Asch - to whom the book is dedicated to a friend, and it is signed and dedicated by Asch. It was also trimmed in the production process, and the pages are smaller than the original production. The First English edition. London, Michael Joseph, Dodd B 5572 The text is identical with the American edition, with the exception of an appendix written especially for the English edition which describes reissue recordings of songs described in the text which were available in England. Da Capo Reprint: New York: Da Capo Press, Dodd B 5588 With a new introduction, and some corrections to the text. Hardcover, with institutional red binding. No dust jacket, as published. By the time Da Capo published their reprint in 1975 I had left the United States and I was living in Sweden. I used the new introduction to explain why I had left, and also to discuss some of the thinking behind the original research and writing. The reprint sells steadily, and the book has now been continuously in print for 40 years. Da Capo Reprint, paper edition. Dodd B 5574 Da Capo Reprint. Slightly different back cover and price listing. Dodd B 5573 Die Story Vom Blues A German translation. Munchen: Nymphenburger, Dodd A 4487a Translated by Iris and Rolf Hellmut Foerster. A reprint of the German translation. Hamburg, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Dodd A 4488 An Austrian reprint of the German translation. St. Andra Worden, Robert Azderball, Hannibal Verlag, Dodd A 4485 JAZZ: A HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK SCENE New York: Doubleday, Dodd C 5550 This was the second of the two books I wrote in the spring and summer of I wrote in a sustained burst over 42 nights following a short break from the writing of The Country Blues. The author credit is for myself and Leonard 2

3 Kundstadt, but Len did not participate in the writing. He was a close friend who had been gathering research materials on New York jazz for many years as part of his work as co-editor of Record Research Magazine. I had a rough outline of the book, and I would ask Len to bring the material for each chapter as I needed it. He would stand outside the window of our basement apartment in the morning, his arms filled with research materials from his files, and he would announce his presence by playing us a hot chorus on the kazoo. Actually there are three sentences in a middle chapter that are Len s. Reprint edition. New York: Da Capo, There is a new introduction, written in With pictorial wrappers. [not transferred] Reprint edition. New York: Da Capo, This is the standard red cloth bound edition for libraries. Dodd B 5561 Reprint edition. New York: Da Capo, This is the soft cover edition, with pictorial wrappers. Dodd B 5560 THE POETRY OF THE BLUES New York: Oak Publications, Dodd B 5600 This book was the result of a question from Moe Asch of Folkways Records about the possibility of my doing an album for him which would illustrate the elements of blues poetry. When I assembled the examples I wanted to use, I listened back to the tape and realized that I couldn t understand what everyone was singing without spending so much time puzzling out the words that the effect of the song was lost. Instead, I quickly wrote this book and offered it to Moe as a realistic introduction to the subject. The initial cover had a Ronald Clyne design which I thought was particularly effective. I have not permitted a current reprint of this book - the only one of the books that I have taken out of circulation - because I feel that the subject is much broader and much more complex than my text suggests. Mass market reprint. New York: Avon Books, [not transferred] This edition was published in the midst of the psychedelic revolution and it has a freely conceived cover that matches the period. The book sold well and achieved a wide circulation in this format. There were no changes in the text. Japanese Translation. Tokyo, Chuo Art Publishing, Dodd A4787 This copy signed by the translator, Shigemi Sato. THE BLUESMEN New York: Oak Publications, Dodd C 5609 The hard cover edition. This copy is signed with a presentation to the family of Bill Colyer. 3

4 Paperback edition. This was identical with the hard cover edition and was published at the same time. [not transferred] This was the first volume of an intended three volume study of the pre-war blues. I wanted to correct many of the historical inaccuracies of The Country Blues and present more material on artists like Charley Patton and Son House, who were still little known at the time of the earlier book. There was also less emphasis on artists who had been successful with the blues audience of their time, and a stronger focus on singers like Patton and Robert Johnson, whose music had found a broad audience in the blues revival. The main areas of study in the were musicians from Texas and Mississippi. The book was written during a period when I was writing a great deal of prose and poetry and the style is more florid than I am comfortable with now. The Sixties left a stronger imprint on all of us than we realized at the time. THE LIFE, THE TIMES, THE SONGS OF COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH New York: Ryerson Music Publishers, Dodd C 5570 This was conceived as a collection of songs by the popular group I was producing for Vanguard Records. Ryerson Music was a Vanguard entity, and the company had already been very successful with a Joan Baez song book. There were more problems with the arrangements for this book, and production was delayed until the commercial justification for the book had passed. My role in the book was a history of the band that introduced the chronological sections. ROBERT JOHNSON New York: Oak Publications, Dodd C 5669 There are two editions of this book, identical except for the size. The first edition was published in a smaller size - 7 x 10 - but since most of the contents consists of transcriptions of Johnson s songs the decision was made to enlarge the page size to a music folio size - 8 1/2 x 11. In the first set of proofs I received of the book I found that a professional music editor had revised all of my transcriptions to suit standard song notation, which reduced the complexities of Johnson s phrasing to the level of a Christmas carol collection. When the editor defended what he had done I immediately wrote the publisher and called what had been done a racist act. After only a moment of hesitation the publisher agreed to redo the musical notation, and the book has had steady sales, and has survived the legal problems which arose over the copyrights of Johnson s songs. THE LEGACY OF THE BLUES A Glimpse into the art and the lives of twelve great bluesmen. An informal study. London: Calder and Boyars, Dodd B 5563 and Dodd A This is the first of the books I did with Marion Boyars. She was married to Arthur Boyars, who is at some remove my wife s cousin. We met Marion and Arthur while we were staying with the Stoll family in London, awaiting the birth of our second daughter, Nora. The book grew out of a series of records I had produced for Sonet Records with the same title and the same design. There was a marketing package which combined an LP sampler of the series and the paper 4

5 back edition of the book, but because of British merchandising restrictions the books could not be sold in record shops, and the records could not be sold in bookshops. Paperback edition. Calder and Boyars published a simultaneous paperback edition. Dodd B 5563 Paperback reprint. New York: Da Capo, Dodd B 5564 Paperback reprint. London: Marion Boyars, Dodd B 5562 The text is photographed from the existing plates and there is a new cover. This edition is printed on considerably better paper stock than the first edition. Zavestanje Bluza. A translation into Serbo-Croatian. A large book, 11 x 11. Dodd D 1530 The blues text are reprinted in English, using photocopies of the original pages. A Japanese translation. Tokyo, Shobunsha, Dodd A 4785 SWEET AS THE SHOWERS OF RAIN. The Bluesmen, Volume II New York: Oak Publications, Paperback only. [not transferred] When I left the United States at the end of 1970 I was not certain that I would continue with the three volume study of the early blues that I had promised in the introduction to The Bluesmen. Then, at the end of a television interview in Helsinki, a Finnish sound technician came up to me and asked, When will you do Volume II of Bluesmen? and I realized that I should do at least the second volume of the project. As I said in the introduction to the new book, Mike Rowe s study, Chicago Breakdown, covered that area so thoroughly that there was no need for me to complete the third volume, which was to cover Chicago blues. This second volume covers singers of Memphis, Tennessee, Atlanta, and the Carolinas. SPELMANNEN - (THE SWEDISH FIDDLERS) Stockholm: Editions Sonet/Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Dodd C 5663 and Dodd C I list this title in my bibliography under an English version of the title, but the book was written and published in Swedish. It is the first study of Swedish folk fiddling, and was the result of three years of research and travel in Sweden. There is a summary of the text in English included as an appendix, but there has not been a translation into English. Sonet Records: Spelmannen, same date /LP1258 This is an LP released in conjunction with the book, and containing historical examples of Swedish folk fiddling described in the text. THE ROOTS OF THE BLUES, An African Search 5

6 Boston/London: Marion Boyars, Dodd B 5566 The book was the product of three journeys to West Africa in the mid-1970s. At the time of my first trip to The Gambia in 1974 I realized that it had been twenty years since I had produced my first New Orleans recordings, and I hadn t been to Africa. Although the book is not hard to read, and it won an award and has been steadily reprinted, it was difficult to write. I didn t have any kind of model for the kind of book I wanted it to be, and there were many revisions and reconsiderations. During the African journeys I also did several recordings that were released in Sweden and the United States, and someone reading the chapter on A River Place will find that the place I am describing is also the setting for the novel Mr. Jabi And Mr. Smythe. A Perigee Book: Paperback edition, Dodd B 5568 British Paperback edition. London: Quartet Books, Dodd B 5567 The text was photographed from the hard cover edition of the year before. American Paperback edition. New York, Da Capo, ND. Dodd B 5565 MR. JABI AND MR. SMYTHE A novel. Only edition, New York and London: Marion Boyars, Dodd B 5570 The story is set in West Africa in the 1970s, specifically nine years after the departure of the English colonial government. The setting, though it s not specified in the novel, is the island of Georgetown in the Gambia River, a day s journey upriver from the coast. This is the same area of Africa that is described in the non-fiction work The Roots of the Blues. JELLY ROLL MORTON S LAST NIGHT AT THE JUNGLE INN A Novel. New York and London: Marion Boyars, Dodd B 5553 As I said in the introduction to the book, I had wanted to write about Jelly Roll for many years, but I found the work of an entire biography too daunting, and also a biography wouldn t have given me the room to invent and improvise which was what I had dreamed of doing with Morton s life. The result was this blend of fiction and memoir, which Marion Boyars always had difficulty settling in her own mind. Which was it? The first edition was subtitled, as I had suggested, An Imaginary Memoir, but later editions suggest that this is a Morton biography. The publisher and I finally agreed to disagree over this catalog description. First paperback. London: Marion Boyars, [not transferred] The hard cover edition of the book was poorly made and Marion Boyars finally decided that the best way around the problem was to remove the bindings from unsold stock and rebind the body of the book with a newly designed cover which quoted some of the early reviews. 6

7 Current paperback. London: Marion Boyars, Dodd B 5569 LOUISIANA BLACK A novel. Only edition, New York and London: Marion Boyars, Dodd B 4170 Although this is a novel, it is set in Louisiana and one scene is set in a night club. The band described playing in the club is the zydeco group Rockin Dopsie and the Cajun Twisters. Unproduced screenplay. In binder of International Creative Management, Inc. Screenplay by Lukas Heller, Additional Dialog by Cecil Brown. Jan, 26, Dodd C 5733 Unproduced screenplay. In binder of International Creative Management, Inc. Screenplay by Nevin Schreiner. May 2, Dodd C 5734 The novel was filmed under the title White Lies in THE BLUES MAKERS A Da Capo Reprint. New York: Da Capo, Dodd C 5584 This is a large reprint which includes two earlier books, The Bluesmen and Sweet As The Showers Of Rain. My original intention had been to write a three volume blues history to replace The Country Blues. The first volume, which discussed the rural blues artists from Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, was published before I left the United States, and I probably would not have begun the second volume if I had not been asked by a Finnish sound technician, after I d appeared on a program in Helsinki, When are you going to do the second volume of Bluesmen? Sweet As The Showers Of Rain, which covers Memphis, Atlanta, and the Carolinas, was written in Sweden, using the materials I had brought with me. The projected third volume would have discussed urban blues of Chicago, both prewar and post-war. I explained in the introduction to Sweet As The Showers that Mike Rowe s excellent book on South Side blues, Chicago Breakdown, had made my third volume unnecessary. ELVIS PRESLEY CALLS HIS MOTHER AFTER THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, Paperback only. Dodd B 5132 Although I wrote the book only a short time after I d written the Jelly Roll Morton memoir Marion Boyars rejected the manuscript - too sentimental - and I neglected to do anything more with it. My daughter Nora found it, read it, and told me I had to send it to another publisher. Coffee House accepted it within a few days after receiving the manuscript, and scheduled an early publication. The book was held up for a few months, however, by the Presley Estate, which attempts to control anything published about him. Finally we were permitted to 7

8 publish, but no photographs of Presley could be used, so the book had an art cover instead. Bound galleys. Same publisher and date. [not transferred] There were a limited number of bound galleys prepared for reviewers. THE DAY IS SO LONG AND THE WAGES SO SMALL New York and London: Marion Boyars, Paperback only. Dodd A 4374 For several years I had intended to write about the Bahamas summer of 1958, when Ann - then Danberg - and I traveled to Andros Island to record African influenced vernacular music, but there was no opportunity until the summer of 1998 in Stockholm. I was scheduled to record an album with a Swedish artist, but he didn t have the material ready so the sessions were postponed. July was gray and rainy, so I spent most of the month in our apartment writing. I sent the manuscript to Marion Boyars, asking if I could have a quick reply, and she called me four days after receiving the manuscript, saying she liked it very much and she wasn t even going to put it through an editing stage. Instead she would put it directly into production. The book was in the page proof stage at the time of Marion s death from cancer in January, Bound galleys. Same publisher and date. [not transferred] There were a limited number of bound galleys prepared for reviewers. A CHECKLIST OF PRODUCTIONS, RECORDINGS, COMPILATIONS, AND WRITING FOR ALBUM RELEASE [Storrs, CT : S. Charters, 2000]. Dodd B 5767 WALKING A BLUES ROAD: A SELECTION OF BLUES WRITING New York : Marion Boyars, Dodd A 5624 NEW ORLEANS: PLAYING A JAZZ CHORUS. New York : Marion Boyars, Dodd A 8973 A TRUMPET AROUND THE CORNER: THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008. Dodd C and Dodd C A LANGUAGE OF SONG: JOURNEYS IN THE MUSICAL WORLD OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, Dodd C Book Manuscripts, Working Drafts, Revised Proofs Blues Faces final text, working proofs, editorial correspondence The Day Is So Long and the Wages So Small clean manuscript Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After the Ed Sullivan Show manuscript with suggested illustrations 8

9 Jelly Roll Morton s Last Night at the Jungle Inn manuscript A Language of Song manuscript and revised proofs The Legacy of the Blues manuscript Louisiana Black early draft and final manuscript still titled Frank Lewis s Son The Poetry of the Blues corrections and complete script A Trumpet Around the Corner manuscript Walking a Blues Road clean manuscript I A2. Productions, Recordings, Compilations and a Film by Samuel Charters Last Session, Blind Willie McTell. Prestige/Bluesville, BV /LP1250 The Music of New Orleans Vol. 1: The Music of the Streets/The Music of Mardi Gras, Folkways Records, /LP1415 Six and Seven-Eighths String Band of New Orleans Vol. 1, Folkways Records, /LP1413 American Skiffle Bands, Folkways Records, Dodd CD 1877 Blind Willie Johnson, Folkways Records, /LP1414 Original Jelly Roll Blues, vol. 10. Jelly Roll Morton, Riverside Records, /LP1166 Buddy Bolden s Blues, vol. 11. Jelly Roll Morton. Riverside, /LP1176 Yaqui Dances: The Pascola Music of the Yaqui Indians of Northern Mexico, Folkways Records, /LP1434 The Music of the Bahamas vol. 1: Bahaman Folk Guitar, Joseph Spence, Folkways Records, /LP1420 The Music of the Bahamas vol. 2, Folkways Records, /LP1421 The Music of New Orleans vol. 2: The Music of the Eureka Brass Band, Folkways Records, /LP1416 9

10 The Music of New Orleans vol. 3: The Music of the Dance Halls, Folkways Records, /LP1417 The Music of the Bahamas vol. 3: Instrumental Music from the Bahaman Islands, Folkways Records, /LP1422 The Music of New Orleans vol. 4: The Birth of Jazz, Folkways Records, /LP1418 The Music of New Orleans vol. 5: New Orleans Jazz, The Flowering, Folkways Records, /LP1419 Sam Lightning Hopkins, Folkways Records, /LP1424 See What You Done Done, Baby Tate, Bluesville, /LP1329 Barrelhouse Buck, Thomas McFarland, Folkways Records, /LP1260 The Borders, Songs and Dances of the English-Scottish Border, Folkways Records, /LP1429 Furry Lewis, Folkways Records, /LP1427 Joseph Lamb: A Study in Classic Ragtime, Folkways Records, /LP1425 The Rural Blues: A study of the vocal and Instrumental Resources, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, /LP1276a-b Back on My Feet Again, Furry Lewis, Prestige Records, /LP1336 Done Changed My Mind, Furry Lewis, Prestige Records, /LP1337 A History of Jazz: the New York Scene, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales/ Folkways Records, /LP1271 Stephen Crane, Jared Reed, Folkways Records, /LP1393 Hard Working Man Blues, Memphis Willie B, Prestige Records, /LP1251 Introducing Memphis Willie B, Prestige, /LP1249 The Orangemen of Ulster, Folkways Records, /LP1428 Pink Anderson vol. 2: Medicine Show Man, Bluesville Records, /LP

11 Pink Anderson vol. 1: Carolina Blues Man, Bluesville Records, /LP1328 Essay in Ragtime, Ragtime Piano Classics, Folkways Records, /LP1426 Sleepy John Estes, , Asch Recordings, /LP1281 The Sounds of London, Folkways Records, /LP1431 The Blues in St. Louis Vol. 3: Henry Townsend, Folkways Records, /LP1406 Tired of Bein Mistreated, Henry Townsend, Bluesville Records, /LP1327 Mark Twain, Will Geer, Folkways Records, /LP1392 Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Cort, Folkways Records, /LP1395 Dear Abe Linkhorn: The Satire of the Civil War, Transatlantic Records, /LP1391 The Blues of the Mississippi Delta, JD Short and Son House, Folkways Records, /LP1401 The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt, Prestige Records, /LP1248 The Jug Bands, Various Artists, Folkway Records, /LP1280 Pink Anderson Vol. 3: Ballad & Folksinger, Bluesville Records, /LP1324 Sleepy Man Blues, Geoff Muldaur, Big Beat Records, /LP1331 The Art of the Jug Band, The True Endeavor Jug Band, Prestige Records, /LP1333 Traditional Music of Ireland Vol. 2: Songs and Dances from Down, Kerry, and Clare, Folkways Records, /LP1430 Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol. 1, Folkways Records, /LP1396 Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol. 2, Folkways Records, /LP

12 Charles Ives: The Short Piano Pieces, Folkways Records, /LP1400 Bluegrass Get Together, Charles River Valley Boys with Tex Logan, Prestige Records, /LP1247 The Country Blues Vol. 2, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, /LP1289 The Country Songs of the Lilly Brothers, Prestige Records, /LP1334 Inside, Dave Van Ronk, Prestige Records, /LP1264 Eric Sings Von Schmidt, Prestige Records, /LP1239 Folk Guitar, Various Artists, Folkways Records, /LP1423 The Folk Stringers, Various Artists, Prestige Records, /LP1253 The Guitar and Banjo of Reverend Gary Davis, Prestige Records, /LP 1244 The Holy Modal Rounders, Prestige Records, /LP 1245 Folk Songs, Maxine Sellers, Prestige Records, /LP 1335 New Orleans Jazz: The Twenties Vol. 1, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, /LP 1278 New Orleans Jazz: The Twenties Vol. 2, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, /LP 1279 Old Time Fiddling at Union Grove, Prestige Records, /LP 1252 The Artistry of Greece, Orchestra Kostakis-Lakis, Prestige Records, /LP lp1330 Blues, Songs, Ballads, Tom Rush, Prestige Records, lp1240 More Blues from the South Side, Billy Boy Arnold, Prestige Records, lp1291 Blind Willie Johnson, , Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1405 The Blues at Newport/1964/Vol. 1, Various Artists, Vanguard, lp1398 Charles Ives Songs Vol. 1: 1894 to 1915, Folkways Records, lp1399 Charles Ives Songs Vol. 2: 1915 to 1925, Folkways Records, lp1255 The Holy Modal Rounders/ 2, Prestige Records, lp1241 Blues on the South Side, Homesick James, Prestige Records,

13 lp1326 Jesse Fullers Favorites, Jesse Fuller, Prestige Records, lp1242a-b My life in the Blues, Lightnin Hopkins, Prestige Records, lp1394 Moby Dick, Louis Zorich, Folkways Records, lp1254 The Blues Never Die!, Otis Spann, Prestige Records, lp1332 Sweet Bittersweet, Len & Judy Novy, Prestige Records, lp1246 Deep are the roots, Tracy Nelson, Prestige Records, lp1265a-b The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Blues, Gospel, and Jazz, Various Artists, Asch Records, lp1283 The Atlanta Blues, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1282 Blues Rediscoveries, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1285 Blues Roots/Mississippi, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1234 Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1, Vanguard, lp1235 Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 2, Vanguard, lp1236 Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 3, Vanguard, lp1275 The Country Blues, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1338 It s My Life Baby!, Junior Wells, Vanguard Records, lp1243 The Blues/ A New Generation, Larry and Hank, Prestige Records, lp1284 Piano Blues, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1290 The Real Calypso , Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1256a-b The Rural Blues, Various Artists, Transatlantic Records, lp1298 Say, Siegel-Schhwall, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1297 The Siegel-Schwall Band, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1266a-b The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2, Blues, Gospel, and Jazz, Various Artists, Asch Records, lp1286 Blues/Chicago The 1930s, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1261 The Blues: Music from the Film by Samuel Charters, Asch Records, lp1343 Electric Music for the Mind and Body, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard Records, lp1296 Requia and other compositions for guitar solo, John Fahey, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1341 Jump for Joy, Jim Kweskin, Vanguard Records, lp1339 A Man & the Blues, Buddy Guy, Vanguard Records, lp1345 Together, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard Records, lp1305 Circus Maximus, Vanguard Records, lp1306 Elizabeth, Vanguard Records, lp1295 The Yellow Princess, John Fahey, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1340 Coming at You, Junior Wells, Vanguard Records,

14 lp1304 Notes from the Underground, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1315 The Reverend Gary Davis at Newport, Vanguard Records, lp1303 Cleanliness and Godliness, Skiffle Band, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1342 This is Buddy Guy!, Vanguard Records, lp1349 Country Joe & the Fish Vol. 2, Vanguard Sterolab, 1969 (released in China) lp1351 El Disco de Oro de Country Joe and the Fish, Vanguard Records, 1969 (released in Mexico) lp1350 Greatest Hits, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard, 1969 (released in France) lp1346 Here We Are Again, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard Records, lp1352 Here We Are Again, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard Records, 1969 (released in China) lp1354a-b Live! Fillmore West 1969, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard Records, lp1347 Thinking of Woody Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, Vanguard Records, lp1300 Frost Music, The Frost, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1301a-b Live at the Grande Ballroom!, The Frost, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1302 Rock and Roll Music, The Frost, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1307 Poet Song, Tina & David Meltzer, Vanguard Records, lp1309 Bright Sun is Shining, Barry Melton, Vanguard Records, lp1389 XTRA, Blind Willie Johnson, Transatlantic Records, lp1348 Tonight I m Singing Just For You, Country Joe McDonald, Vanguard Records, lp1308 Believe, The Third Power, Vanguard Records, lp1348 Tonight I m Singing Just For You, Country Joe McDonald, Vanguard Records, lp1187 Rock Around the Country, Bill Haley and the Comets, Sonet Records, lp1204 Brew s Stockholm Dew, Brew Moore, Sonet Records, lp1270 The Cajuns, Songs, Waltzes, and Two Steps, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1353a-b The Life and Times of Country Joe & the Fish from Haight- Ashbury to Woodstock, Country Joe & the Fish, Vanguard Records, lp1390 The New Ragtime Guitar, David Laibman & Eric Schoenberg, Transatlantic Records, lp1408 The New Ragtime Guitar, David Laibman & Eric Schoenberg, Asch Records, lp1388 XTRA, Furry Lewis, Transatlantic Records, lp1368 LÅT & TRALL, Sonet Records, 1971 (released in Sweden) 14

15 lp1365 Kjell Baekkelund, Spellar MÅNDAGSGRUPPEN, Sonet Records, lp1267 Ragtime 1, The City, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1268 Ragtime 2, The Country, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1230 Those Pleasant Days, Stefan Grossman, Transatlantic Records, lp1269 Country Gospel Songs, Various Artists, Record, Book & Film Sales, lp1321 Snus, mus och brännvin, Skäggmanslaget, Sonet Records, lp1376 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 6, Big Joe Williams, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1184 Travelin Band, Bill Haley and the Comets, Janus Records, lp1371 The Legacy of the Blues Vol1, Bukka White, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in Barcelona) lp1373 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 3, Champion Jack Dupree, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1375 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 5, Juke Boy Bonner, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1292 God Bless the Unemployed, Lea Nicholson & Stan Ellison, Transatlantic, lp1377 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 7, Memphis Slim, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1374 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 4, Mighty Joe Young, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1432a-b Roots of Black Music in America, Folkways Records, lp1219 A Joplin Bouquet, Scott Joplin, Sonet Records, lp1372 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 2, Snooks Eaglin, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1322a-b Spellmanssämma I Delsbo, Sonet Records, lp1231 Hot Dogs, Stefan Grossman, Transatlantic, lp1363 Lambert Land, Tasavalan Presidentti, Sonet Records, 1972 (released in Sweden) lp1355a-b The Week PEPS came to Chicago, Various Artists, Sonet Records, lp1194 The Cajuns Vol. 1, The Balfa Bros. with Nathan Abshire, Sonet Records, lp1183 Rock & Roll, Bill Haley and the Comets, GNP Crescendo Records, lp1195 The Cajuns Vol. 2, The Branch Playboys, Sonet Records, 1973 (Distributed in UK & Eire by Pye Records) lp1227 City Blues, Specialty Records, lp1229 Country Blues, Various Artists, Specialty Records, lp1311 Paris Sessions, Country Joe Mcdonald, Vanguard, lp1228 Hooker, Hopkins, Hogg, Specialty Records,

16 lp1378 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 8, J.D. Short, Sonet Records, 1973 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1404 The Chess Story Vol. 2: John Lee Hooker, Spotlight Records, lp1318 Oregon: Music of Another Present Era, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1379 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 9, Robert Pete Williams, Sonet Records, 1973 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1364 Romane Djila, Hans Caldaras & Ziggidim, Sonet Records, 1973 (released in Sweden) lp1237a-b Stefan Grossman Live!, Transatlantic, lp1369 African Journey: Vol. 1, Various Artists, Sonet Records, lp1380 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 10, Eddie Boyd, Sonet Records, 1974 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1233 The Cajuns Vol. 1, Various Artists, Gazelle, lp1232 The Cajuns Vol. 2, Various Artists, Gazell, lp1226 Algiers Strut, Kid Thomas and the New Orleans Joy Makers, Sonet Records, lp1384 The Legacy of the Blues Sampler: Twelve Great Blues, Various Artists, Sonet Records, 1974 (released in the UK by Pye Records)(accompanying book The Legacy of Blues by Samuel Charters, Dodd A10224) lp1310 In the Scoop with Martin Mull, Les Daniels and Ed Wise, Vanguard Records, lp1382 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 12, Lightnin Hopkins, Sonet Records, 1974 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1216 That Teasin Rag, New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, Sonet Records, lp1356 Blodsband, PEPS, Sonet Records, 1974 (released in Sweden) lp1220 The Genius of Scott Joplin, Scott Joplin, Sonet Records, lp1221 Ragtime Compositions, Scott Joplin, Sonet Records, lp1381 The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 11, Sunnyland Slim, Sonet Records, 1974 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1370a-b African Journey, Various Artists, Vanguard Records, lp1433a-b The Griots: Ministers of Spoken Word, Folkways Records, lp1209 Oleo, The Lee Konitz Trio with Dick Katz and Wilbur Little, Sonet Records, lp1217 New Orleans Days, New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, Sonet Records, lp1357 Hög standard, Peps Blodsband, Sonet Records, lp1360 BLUES PÅSVENSKA, Peps och Slim, Sonet Records, 1975 (released in Sweden) lp1206 Them There Eyes, Ruby Braff, Sonet Records, lp1207 In Walked Sonny, Sonny Stitt with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Sonet Records, lp1185 Rock, Bill Haley and the Comets, Sonet Records, lp1205 The Bop Session, Various Artists, Sonet Records,

17 lp1367 Jubileumsskiva, Cave Stompers, Sonet Records, 1976 (released in Sweden) lp1190 Nashville Sundown, Curly Chalker, GNP Crescendo, lp1385 Doin The Zydeco, Rockin Dopsie & the Twisters, Sonet Records, 1976 (released in the UK by Pye Records) lp1215 Jazz, Various Artists, Sonet Records, lp1213 Kansas City Joy, Various Artists, Sonet Records, lp1218 Old Fireman s Hall, New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, Sonet Records, lp1180 Rockin Dopsie & the Cajun twisters, Sonet Records, lp1189 The Sax that changed the world, Rudy Pompilli and the comets, Sonet, lp1211 Trombone Cholly, Vic Dickenson, Sonet Records, lp1313 Authentic Swedish Fiddle Music from Boda Village, Various Artists, ` Vanguard Records, lp1186 El Rey Del Rock & Roll, Bill Haley, Discos Tiempo, lp1312 Reunion, Country Joe & The Fish, Fantasy Records, lp1192 That Good New New Orleans Rock and Roll, Earl King, Sonet Records, lp1272 Jazz, Some Beginnings: , Various Artists, Folkways Records, lp1212 Sliding By, Joe Venuti, Sonet Records, lp1208 Mean What you Say, Philly Joe Jones, Sonet Records, lp1386 Zy-De- Blue, Rockin Dopsie & the Twisters, Sonet Records, 1977 (released in the UK by Pye Records) lp1409 African Flutes, Various Artists, Folkways Records, lp1294a-b Requia / The Yellow Princess, John Fahey, Vanguard Recording Society, lp1202 Good times Killin Me, Nathan Abshire, Sonet Records, lp1210 Song of the Black Knight, The New York Jazz Quartet, Sonet, lp1191 Troubles Troubles, Otis Rush, Sonet Records, lp1359 Doppen Urholkar Stenen, Peps Blodsband, Sonet Records, 1978 (released in Sweden) lp1358 SPÅR, Peps Blodsband, Sonet Records, 1978 (released in Sweden) lp1214 Pretties, Ruby Braff, Sonet Records, lp1223 He Knew the Blues, Slim Harpo, Sonet Records, lp1193 Down Yonder, Snooks Eaglin Today, Sonet Records, lp1273 The Swedish Fiddlers, Music from the fiddlers at Delsbo, Various Artists, Folkways Records, lp1200 Back to the Bayou, Austin Pitre and the Evangeline Playboys, Sonet Records, lp1201 Cajun Days, Balfa Brothers Orchestra, Sonet Records, lp1196 Cajun Cruisin Vol. 1, Sonet Records, lp1197 Cajun Cruisin Vol. 2, Sonet Records, lp1222 Boogie and Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, Sonet Records,

18 lp1323a-b The Dancing Bow: An Anthology of Swedish Fiddle Music, Sonet Records, lp1199 Cajun Two-Step, Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces, Sonet Records, lp1366 I Can Jive, Jerry Williams and Roadwork, Sonet Records, lp1277 (LP not transferred LP jacket only; see Charters LP Jackets) This is Mamou Cajun Radio, Various Artists, Sonet Records, lp1387 Hold On!, Rockin Dopsie & the Twisters, Sonet Records, 1979 (released in the UK by Pye Records) lp1258 Spelmännen, Lett urval inspelningar, Sonet Records, 1979 (accompanying book : Spelmännen, Lett urval inspelningar, Samlage av Samuel Charters, Wahlström & Widstrand, 1979 Dodd C10580) lp1198 Cajun Paradise, Wayne Toups and the Crowley Aces, Sonet Records, lp1188a-b Starportrait, Bill Haley and the Comets, Sonet Records, lp1410 The Cajun Swing, Various Artists, Folkways Records, lp1177 Big Bad Zydeco, Rocking Dopsie & the Cajun twisters, Sonet Records, lp1274 First Blues, Allen Ginsberg, Folkways Records, lp1203 A couple of Cajuns, Ardoin Family Orchestra with Dewie Balfa, Sonet Records, lp1181 The Blowin Man, John Hart with Rocking Dopsie & the twisters, Sonet Records, lp1259 Lets put the Axe to the Axis, Folkways Records, lp1362 Med Pukor och trumpeter, Norrtelje Elitkapell, Sonet Records, 1981 (released in Sweden) lp1287 On the Beach at Waikiki: Hawaiian Guitar from the teens to the fifties, Various Artists, Folkways Records, lp1178 French Style, Rocking Dopsie & the Cajun twisters, Sonet Records, lp1288 Send Your Children to the Orphan Home: Calypso Songs of Social Commentary and Love Troubles, Various Artists, Folkways Records, lp1182 I m Here!, Clifton Chenier and his red hot Louisiana band, Sonet Records, lp1411 Mr. Trouble, Lonnie Johnson, Folkways Records, lp1412 Tears Don t Fall No More, Lonnie Johnson, Folkways Records, lp1383a-b The Legacy of the Blues : Double Sampler, Sonet Records, 1983 (released in UK by Pye Records) lp1225 Tex-mex Breakdown, Sonet Records, lp1402 The Blues in St. Louis Vol. 1: Daddy Hot Cakes, Folkways Records, lp1403 The Blues in St. Louis Vol. 2: Henry Brown and Edith Johnson, Folkways Records, lp1407 Carolina Medicine Show Hookum and Blues, Pink Anderson, Folkways Records,

19 lp1361 en do loch andra, Peps Persson, Sonet Records, 1984 (released in Sweden) LP1179 Good Rockin, Rocking Dopsie & the Cajun Twisters, Sonet Records, LP1320 South Western Scenarios, Ben Tavera King, Vanguard Recording Society, LP1316 New England, Clyde Criner, Vanguard Recording Society, LP1293 Requia, John Fahey, Vanguard Recording Society, LP1317 Touch Wood, Jukka Tolonen with Coste Apetrea, Vanguard Records, LP1314 A Touch of Klez!, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Vanguard Records, LP1319 E Pluribus Unum, Sandy Bull, Vanguard Recording Society, LP1263 Why, oh, why? And other nonsense and activity songs for very early childhood with Woodie Guthrie, Folkways Records, LP1224 San Antonio Saturday Nights, Augie Meyers, Sonet Records, LP1262 Swingin, Various Artists, Folkways Records, LP1257 A Vision Shared, Various Artists, CBS Records, 1988 THE EXTENDED SERIES PROJECTS I was always drawn to extended music projects. They provided an opportunity to create a larger presentation of a musical idiom, and also made it possible to trace the interconnections and influences that give any musical style its unique character. In the/ 1950s, when almost all of my recording was done in the artists houses, outdoors on the streets, or in dance halls, I did the five-volume Music of New Orleans series, which Folkways Records released beginning in the spring of After the summer of 1958, recording on the beaches or the house porches of Andros Island in the Bahamas with Ann Charters as an assistant and photographer, I produced the three volume series Music of the Bahamas, which also was released by Folkways. I felt that the criteria for a series was that it should document a clearly defined musical area, and the recordings should present enough of the main trends and styles of the music to clarify the music s distinct identity. I began with the same criteria in the albums of blues reissues I produced for Folkways on the subsidiary RBF label in the 1960s, but when I began working for Sonet Records in Sweden Moe Asch of Folkways used the format to introduce a wider range of musical styles than I had originally envisioned. In 1965 I had the opportunity with Chicago/The Blues/Today! to document the blues scene in the small neighborhood clubs of Chicago s South Side for Vanguard Records. It was conceived as a portrait of the blues styles in the clubs at that moment, and the three albums of the series included every style of blues that I had found over the years I was listening to music in Chicago.. When I began working for Sonet Records in Stockholm in 1970 and moved with my family to Sweden I didn t expect to continue recording the blues, but my new company had world-wide distribution and there was still a large and enthusiastic international blues audience. For Sonet I did the twelve volume series The Legacy of the Blues, and from the field recordings I did in Africa in the mid- 19

20 1970s I produced the two-volume set African Journey of songs and instrumental music which also was released on Sonet. Later Folkways released a two volume boxed set The Griots: Ministers of the Spoken Word, compiled from the chanted narrative songs of West African griots I had recorded.. In the 1980s and the 1990s there was a growing interest in album series for the new CD format, drawing on the material the record companies had been collecting in their vaults over the last two decades. Even if the material had been previously released on LP, the CD offered at least a third more playing time, and many buyers insisted that this time should be used for more music. Often it meant that material from the original sessions that had been discarded could be added to the tracks from the initial release, as well as versions and takes of material that were too long to fit comfortably onto an LP side. Also for many of these concept series it was possible to compile albums that drew from a number of earlier releases. Over the next twenty years I produced a number of these extended series documentations for Prestige Records, Vanguard Records, Sonet Records, and Universal Music. THE PRESTIGE RECORDS EXTENDED SERIES The Bluesville Years Beginning in the late 1950s Prestige, which had been known exclusively as a jazz label, began releasing its albums in different categories, and most of the names of the category titles ended in ville. Among others there were Swingsville and Moodsville as well as Bluesville. The company s active line of folk albums kept its earlier title, The Prestige Folklore Series. I was brought in by Bill Belmont of Fantasy Records, the larger company that had bought Prestige, to create first a blues series, The Bluesville Years, then a folk series, The Prestige Folklore Years. There was an additional folk series from the catalog of Riverside Records, The Riverside Folklore Series. Riverside was another New York jazz label that had moved into folk music in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the audience s interest in jazz faded, and Riverside was now also under the Fantasy umbrella of labels. The Bluesville Years (A number of the albums use photographs by Ann Charters as cover illustrations) Volume 1 Big Blues, Honks, and Wails CD Prestige 9905, /CD 2062 Artists include: Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Mildred Anderson, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Al Smith Volume 2 Feelin Down on the South Side CD Prestige 9906, /CD 2063 Artists include Otis Spann, James Cotton, Billy Boy Arnold, Homesick James Volume 3 Beale Street Get-down CD Prestige 9907, /CD 2064 Artists include Furry Lewis, Memphis Willie B., Memphis Slim Volume 4 In the Key of Blues CD Prestige 9908, /CD

21 Artists include Mercy Dee Walton, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, Curtis Jones, Sunnyland Slim Volume 5 Mr. Brownie & Mr. Sonny CD Prestige 9913, /CD 2066 Artists Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Volume 6 Blues Sweet Carolina Blues CD Prestige 9914, /CD 2067 Artists include Pink Anderson, Reverend Gary Davis, Larry Johnson, Brownie McGhee, Baby Tate, Sonny Terry Volume 7 Blues Blue, Blues White CD Prestige 9915, /CD 2068 Artists include Danny Kalb, Geoff Muldaur, Tracy Nelson, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush, Eric Von Schmidt, The New Strangers Volume 8 Roll Over, Ms Beethoven CD Prestige 9916, /CD 2069 Artists include Lucille Hegamin, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Hunter, Victoria Spivey Volume 9 Down the Country Way CD Prestige 9917, /CD 2070 Artists include J. D. & Shirley Griffith, Robert Pete Smith, Smoky Babe, Robert Pete Williams, Wade Walton, Big Joe Williams, Pete Franklin, Scrapper Blackwell, Blind Willie McTell, Tampa Red Volume 10 Country Roads, Country Days CD Prestige 9910, /CD 2071 Artists include K. C. Douglas, Alec Seward, Doug Quattlebaum, Scrapper Blackwell & Brooks Berry, Jesse Fuller, Snooks Eaglin, Henry Townsend, Mercy Dee Walton, Shakey Jake, Arbee Stidham, St. Louis Jimmy Volume 11 Blues is a Heart s Sorrow CD Prestige 9921, /CD 2072 Artists include Roosevelt Sykes, Sunnyland Slim, Mercy Dee Walton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lightnin Hopkins with Sonny Terry, Willie Dixon with Memphis Slim, Lonnie Johnson, Mildred Anderson, Little Brother Montgomery, Curtis Jones, Pete Franklin, St. Louis Jimmy Volume 12 Jump Jumpin the Blues CD Prestige 9922, /CD 2073 K. C. Douglas, Sonny Terry, Memphis Willie B. Lightnin Hopkins, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon with Memphis Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Billy Boy Arnold, Homesick James, Otis Spann & James Cotton, Shakey Jake, Roosevelt Sykes, Curtis Jones, Jimmy Witherspoon, Mildred Anderson, Sunnyland Slim. The Prestige Folklore Years Volume 1 All Kinds of Folks CD Prestige/Folklore 9901, /CD 2074 Artists include Ramblin Jack Elliot, Tom Rush, Peggy Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, Jean Redpath, Eric Von Schmidt, Bonnie Dobson, Maxine Sellers, Len and Ludy Volume 2 The New City Blues CD Prestige/Folklore 9902, /CD

22 Artists include Dave Van Ronk, Jesse Fuller, Geoff Muldaur, Tracy Nelson, Eric Von Schmidt, Tom Rush, Larry and Hank, The New Strangers Volume 4 Singing Out Loud/The Philadelphia Folk Festival CD Prestige/Folklore 9904, /CD 2076 Artists include Ramblin Jack Elliott, Mike Seeger & Sonny Miller, Bonnie Dobson, Rev. Gary Davis, Keith and Rooney, Tossie Aaron, Pete Seeger Volume 5 Have a Feast Tonight CD Prestige/Folklore 9919, /CD 2077 Artists include The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover Volume 6 Comin From the Ball: Back Bay Bluegrass CD Prestige/Folklore 9920, /CD 2078 Artists include The Charles River Valley Boys, Bill Keith & Jim Rooney, The Charles River Valley Boys with Tex Logan The Riverside Folklore Series Volume 1 Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson CD Riverside 9909, /CD 2079 Artists Bob Gibson and backup group Volume 2 Blue, Wails, Ballads and Songs by the Great Traditional Performers CD Riverside, 9910, /CD 2080 Artists include John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry, Jean Ritchie, Obray Ramsey, George Pegraw, Bascomb Lamar Lunsford, Peggy Seeger, Harry and Jeanie West, Reverend Gary Davis Volume 3 Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of the Folk Revival CD Riverside 9911, /CD 2081 Artists include Oscar Brand, Cynthia Gooding, Milt Okun and Ellen Stekert, Paul Clayton, Pat Foster, Jean Ritchie and Oscar Brand, Logan English, John Greenway, Billy Faier, Merrick Jarrett Volume 4 Dances, Street Songs, Ballads and Love Songs from England, Scotland, and Ireland CD Riverside 9912, /CD 2082 Artists include Ewan McCall, A. L. Lloyd, The Ciaran Kelly Cehlidhe Band, Margaret Barry, The Ormond Star Ceile Band, Patrick Galvin, Jeannie Robertson, The Sonet Blues Story This series was produced for Universal Music, the international music conglomerate that had bought out Sonet Records when the company ceased operations in the early 1990s. On these new compilations I worked closely with Universal s Margareta 22