Refresh. Any more information about Taft and his blues work?

Talkin' to Myself says that the author Michael Taft is head of the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center, and is author of The Blues Lyric Formula and Blues Lyric Poetry: A Concordance. Talkin' was published in 1983, with a revised edition published in 2005.

Talkin' has a nice little biography of every performer indexed. I didn't find the biographies in the online edition.

Here's an excerpt from Sing Out! Magazine on the Archive of Folk Culture:

In related news, the AFC has appointed Save Our Sounds project director Michael Taft to head the Center's Archive of Folk Culture. This appointment makes him the eighth in a line of distinguished folklorists to hold the position since the archive was first created in the Library of Congress in 1928 as the Archive of American Folk Song. Previous heads include John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, Duncan Emrich and Joe Hickerson. Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975) was another
Housing more than two million items of ethnographic material, the Archive of Folk Culture has been one of the great centers for the study of folk music and other ...
Sing Out, March 22, 2003.

-Joe-