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.
Ann Savoy Collection: Chester “Pee Wee” Broussard, 1985
Chester “pee wee” broussard Interview, 1985 A cantankerous character with a heart of gold, this feisty friend of Marc’s is credited with several musical firsts in...
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Ann Savoy Collection: Ambrose Sam, 1990
AmBROSE SAM Interview, 1990 Coming from the Mallet region, near Lawtell, Ambrose and his brother Hebert (father of the great child zydeco band The Sam Five)...
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Ann Savoy Collection: Adam Hebert, 1985 and 1986
Adam Hebert Interviews, 1985 and 1986 I interviewed Adam twice, once at his house where I also took portraits of him and once at my house...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Sonny Treadway Interview
Sonny Treadway Interview Sonny Treadway was born and raised in Michigan and grew up playing steel guitar with Bishop Ron Hall and Calvin Cooke under the...
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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 Lightning Hopkins
Chris Strachwitz Remembers Lightning Hopkins “So we went over there and there he was just ferociously playing on his electric guitar and singing really powerful stuff,...
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Fred Zimmerle Interview
Fred Zimmerle Interview Chris Strachwitz interviews Trio San Antonio bandleader, Fred Zimmerle. Zimmerle recalls his early experiences with music, “we used to have a console Victrola...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Calvin Cooke Interview
Calvin Cooke Interview Calvin Cooke lived most of his life in Detroit and is now retired to the greater Atlanta area. As his family first belonged...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Glenn Lee Interview
Glenn Lee Interview A highly influential steel guitarist in Florida, Glenn Lee introduced pedal-steel guitar to the House of God churches of his home state. Eclectic...
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Sacred Steel Archive: Ted Beard Interview
Ted Beard Interview In about 1933-34, Church of the Living God Chief Overseer Bishop Mattie Lu Jewell brought Ted Beard’s father, Maurice Beard, Sr., from Beaver...
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