ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS:Ain’t No Mouse Blog
Ain’t No Mouse Blog presents stories from the Arhoolie Foundation’s extraordinary archive of American roots music and vernacular culture.
Featuring contributions from Foundation staff and interns, the blog features close looks at fascinating finds, updates on preservation projects, and curated highlights from across our collection of sound and video recordings, photographs, posters, papers, and more.
What a Difference a Date Makes
By John Leopold, Managing Director The Arhoolie Foundation collections contain a multitude of items that were acquired by a collector. Chris Strachwitz collected records, tapes, posters,...
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From San Antonio With Love
By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator Over my twenty-year span of digitizing the Frontera Collection as the Head Digitizing Engineer, many aspects of the collection...
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An Arhoolie Holiday Feast
By Clark Noone, Archivist Tell me what you eat for the holidays, and I’ll tell you where you come from. Okay, maybe it’s not that simple....
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The Blues Professor and His Dancing Dolls
By Jessica Luther, Archives Intern While sorting through the Strachwitz Photo Collection, I became intrigued by several photographs of blues harmonica player Johnny “J.C.” Burris posing...
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New Blog Shares Discoveries
The Arhoolie Foundation introduces This Ain’t No Mouse Blog to present stories from the Arhoolie Foundation’s extraordinary archive of American roots music and vernacular culture. Featuring...
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The Blues on My Block: Discovering the Roots Music History of Downtown Berkeley
By Kyle Jackson, Archives Intern I recently began working on a project to help catalog some of the treasure trove of recordings in the vaults at...
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A Demo in the Rough
By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator As the Head Digitizing Engineer of the Frontera Collection from 2002 until early 2022, I was fortunate to discover...
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Record Store Clerk Turns Librarian
Record Store Clerk Turns Librarian and Takes a Deep Dive into the Strachwitz Archives By Jessica Luther, Archives Intern In high school, I had a lone...
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Who Fired the First Shot?
By John Leopold, Managing Director Working with Chris Strachwitz is always a joyous adventure. From reviewing tapes he made in the 1960s to looking over posters...
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On the Road with Chris Strachwitz in the Fall of ‘68
By Clark Noone, Archivist November 1968. It was the wake of a seismic presidential election and the end of a tumultuous year of political and cultural...
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