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...

Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach compare and contrast B.B. King and Robert Johnson and discuss the surprising link between the two very different artists in light of a new biography of King. They revisit the great Honeyboy Edwards and his enthralling memoir The World Don't Owe Me Nothing and...