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Deep Dives: Blues On Tour

Dry dusty roads, dark end streets, and rowdy juke joints are where you hear the blues. It was his love of down home blues that inspired Chris Strachwitz...

Chris Strachwitz Remembers Sonny Boy Williamson

Chris Strachwitz Remembers Sonny Boy Williamson Chris Strachwitz reminisces in the interview, which is full of anecdotal gems, about being on European tours with Sonny Boy...

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The Chris Strachwitz Collection

As founder of both Arhoolie Records and the Arhoolie Foundation, Chris Strachwitz has been collecting, documenting, recording, and promoting regional roots music for over 60 years....

Arhoolie Records 60 Year Anniversary and Arhoolie Foundation 25 year ANNIVERSARY Enjoy this specially edited archive version of the originally broadcast celebration. Our original Anniversary Celebration...

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, it was just really, really amazing. And shortly after we had come in, he just segued during his singing by pointing his hand at me and singing ‘Whoa, this man come all the way from California just to hear poor Lightning sing…'”