At 5:00pm (EST) today, tune in to WHUS Radio 91.7 FM to hear music produced and recorded by poet, novelist, and renowned scholar of the blues, jazz, and musical culture of the African diaspora Samuel Charters.  Featuring our own Kristin Eshelman, Archivist for The Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture at the University of Connecticut in Archives and Special Collections, the much-anticipated radio program is a tribute to the friendship, life and legacy of Samuel Charters.  Samuel Charters died in March of this year at the age of 85.

Walking A Blues Road is a radio program engineered by Ken Best at WHUS, UConn’s Sound Alternative.  The playlist can be tracked here for this special program.