Roosevelt Charles

No details are available for the date and place of birth of this obscure American blues singer, nor for his death, which is presumed. Charles was recorded in the late 50s/early 60s by blues historian Dr. Harry Oster along with several other inmates at Louisiana's Angola prison. Other prisoners on the original vinyls, released first on Oster's Louisina Folklore Society label and then by Arhoolie Records, are Robert Pete Williams, Hogman Maxey, Guitar Welch and Clara Young, the latter one of three female blues singers Oster set down while at the penitentiary. When reissued on CD...