#chris strachwitz

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Lightnin’ Hopkins at the Sputnik bar, in Houston Texas. 1950s.

source: Back Cover of Arhoolie LP F 1011; photographer: Chris Strachwitz.

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Chris Strachwitz, Lightnin’ Hopkins Texas Blues Man, 1969

[grudnick]

Chris Strachwitz, Down Home Music - El Cerrito, CA by Rex Mandel Via Flickr: 10341 San Pablo Avenue Chris Strachwitz passed away on May 5, 2023 and was one the greatest American musicologists, discovering and documenting American Roots music. He established Arhoolie Records for which he "discovered" and recorded great musicians such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Clifton Chenier and Flaco Jimenez. Hold the Command (or Control) key and click the link Credence (everyone knows Credence is from El Cerrito): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9KKo8mZ5Eo&ab_channel=Bonsai... Hold the command (or Control) key and check out the articles about Mr. Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-strachwitz-ar... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Strachwitz folkways.si.edu/arhoolie

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Chris Strachwitz obituary

Founder of Arhoolie Records who captured unheard voices and did much to increase the international profile of American roots music

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Chris Strachwitz, Arhoolie Records Founder, Dies at 91

Admired by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many others, Strachwitz was an unlikely champion of the American vernacular.

[jmcohen9]

128/365 RIP to Chris Strachwitz. He was the founder of the Arhoolie Records label and the Down Home Music Store in El Cerrito, California. Strachwitz financed much of a Berkeley jug band which later became Country Joe and the Fish. Key recording --  “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” which become the anthem of the anti-Vietnam War movement. Strachwitz got the publishing rights to the song which meant he collected a fee every time the song was played.

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Whaz Up!?! Monday 27 September 2021

All the news from Ye Olde Blogge that'll fit into a post. See what's happening around the blog and what's being read.

Howdy y’all! My life has grown to be monotonous: I go to work, teach classes, plan classes, come home, cook and clean, plan more classes, sleep, get up and do it all over again. I have managed to push my planning out by about a week so instead of planning the next class or tomorrow’s classes, I’m actually doing the end of next week’s classes. So, that’s something. The big national holiday Pchum…

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Aleck's Last Playlist, Vol. 2: The Country Blues

Aleck’s Last Playlist, Vol. 2: The Country Blues

Beginning that Thursday night in April in 1984, most of the time for the next two decades, Aleck and I roommated together.  He wasn’t always around, mind, but he had a way of moving in and out without fuss (he so rarely had possessions to move with him) that I have a hard time hanging onto the memory of his comings and goings.  But fundamentally, for the next score of years, wherever I happened…

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