Don Kent

Who is Don Kent?

Don Kent is a 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 label's issues but also on others', such as Yazoo Records. Many of the blues reissue albums of the 1960s and 1970s use 78 rpm records out of his large collection.

In the 1960s he was member of the so-called New York "Blues Mafia", a group of blues enthusiasts, whose other members were Steve Calt, Samuel Charters, Lawrence 'Larry' Cohn, John Fahey, Stefan Grossman, Tom Hoskins, Bernie Klatzko, Jim McKune, Nick Perls, Phil Spiro and Pete Whelan.