Don Kent (blues historian)
Donald Theodore "Don" Kent was an American collector of blues and bluegrass recordings, a founder and owner of record labels, and a much sought-after writer of liner notes not only on his own labels' issues but also on others', such as Yazoo Records. Many of the blues reissue albums of the 1960s and 1970s use 78-rpm records from his large collection.
Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was employed as a social worker in the New York City Department of Social Services. In the 1960s he was a member of the so-called Blues Mafia in New York City, a group of blues enthusiasts, whose other members were Steve Calt, Samuel Charters, Lawrence "Larry" Cohn, John Fahey, Michael Stewart, Stefan Grossman, Tom Hoskins, Bernie Klatzko, Jim McKune, Nick Perls, Phil Spiro and Pete Whelan.
He died at the Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, aged 71.
