Stephen George Calt (March 14, 1946 – October 17, 2010) was an American blues researcher and writer, who wrote biographies of Skip James and Charley Patton...

Eddie James, a bootlegger who was described as a "local lowlife" by Stephen Calt, left the family around 1907. He later reformed and became a preacher...

spiritual probably dates back to the beginning of the blues". Blues writer Stephen Calt describes it as "a Two-Step piece marked by fiendishly fast playing [in]...

and the melodies likewise have parallels. By the early 20th century, Stephen Calt writes, "Roll, Jordan, Roll" had influenced the creation of a new genre...

Johnson and Mary King. His family, which according to the blues historian Stephen Calt included at least one younger brother (named Carl), moved to the agriculturally...

Stone magazine in 1986, and the studio portrait in a 1989 article by Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow in 78 Quarterly. Both were subsequently featured...

likely a directive for female dancers to shake their hips, the author Stephen Calt thinks that the expression became indecent as a result of the success...

activities. The musical partnership is disputed by Patton's biographers Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow. They consider that House's musicianship was too...

recorded the song for his second LP Spiral Staircase (1969) According to Stephen Calt, the phrase kind-hearted woman was slang for a woman who "catered to...

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780820327327. Stephen Calt, in I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues (2008), suggested...