Ann Charters, better known as Jack Kerouac's biographer and witness-historian of the Beats, also saw firsthand the making of The Country Blues, published by her late husband Samuel Charters in 1959. Though other writers had touched on blues history, none had the impact of Charters and The Country...

Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach interview Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine and the research director of the Mississippi Blues Trail. Jim tells of crossing paths with Robert Johnson's memory during his long career as a journalist in Chicago and Mississippi. He shares audio...