ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS:Audio Interviews
Audio interviews by Chris Strachwitz during his research into the music he was recording for his label Arhoolie Records as well as for his radio programs on KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA) in the 1960’s through 1980’s, and by Dr. Manuel Peña during his research for his several books on Mexican American music.
Sacred Steel Archive: Robert Stone Biography
The Robert Stone Archive: Robert Stone Biography Bob Stone is an independent folklorist and photographer based in Gainesville, Florida. During his tenure with the Florida Folklife...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Willie Eason Interview
The Robert Stone Archive:Willie and Jeannette Eason Interview As a teenager, Willie Eason learned to play the steel guitar by watching his older brother, Troman, who...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Chuck Campbell Interview
The Robert Stone Archive: Chuck Campbell Interview A resident of Rochester, New York when we met in 1996, Chuck Campbell was one of the first steel...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Elton Noble Interview
The Robert Stone Archive: Elton Noble Interview I met Elton Noble in the early 1990s, when he was learning the House of God, Keith Dominion steel...
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The Robert Stone Sacred Steel Archive
The Arhoolie Foundation’s Robert Stone Sacred Steel Archive consists of over 150 recorded interviews and over 6,510 photographic negatives documenting the Sacred Steel gospel music tradition....
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Chris Strachwitz Remembers The Hodges Brothers
Intrigued by a 78rpm recording on the Trumpet label, Chris Strachwitz, in 1960, took his first journey into the country music world of southern Mississippi when...
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Chris Strachwitz Interview: Collecting 78rpm Records
Chris Strachwitz started in the music business as a passionate 78 record collector. Hear him tell the story on how he started Arhoolie Records with the...
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Los Pingüinos del Norte
Chris Strachwitz talks about meeting Los Pingüinos Del Norte. “I believe when I first heard Mexican music on the radio. There was a little station in...
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Chris Strachwitz Interview:
Rev. Louis Overstreet 1962/63
In the summer of 1960 Chris Strachwitz came across a gospel musician and his four sons preaching on the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Listen as...
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New Orleans, 1956
In 1956 Chris Strachwitz was discharged from the US Army at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. Armed with a camera and the love of New Orleans jazz he...
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