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- Birth nameSamuel Barclay Charters IV
- Nickname
- Sam
- Samuel Charters was born on August 1, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for White Lie (1991), Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001) and Chasin' Gus' Ghost (2007). He was married to Ann Charters and Mary Louise Lange. He died on March 18, 2015 in Årsta, Stockholms Län, Sweden.
- SpousesAnn Charters(March 14, 1959 - March 18, 2015) (his death, 2 children)Mary Louise Lange(1949 - 1959) (divorced, 1 child)
- He did field research and wrote books on Southern blues, which helped to inspire the blues and folk music revival of the 1960s and '70s. He also produced blues-based records for Folkways, Prestige, Vanguard and other labels.
- He produced the first four albums by Country Joe & the Fish, including "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag".
- He earned a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
- After serving in the Army during the Korean War, he lived in New Orleans, where he played clarinet, banjo and washboard in bands, and studied with jazz clarinetist George Lewis.
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