Location: Berkeley CA

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...

Bukka White Interview

“‘I just reach up and pull them out of the sky – call them sky songs- they just come to me.’ That’s how Bukka White described his music making. His performances were not polished, finished, slick tin pan alley songs but marvelous, on the spot creations – images and recollections as they come to the artist’s mind.”

Arhoolie Records Catalogs Publications

Arhoolie Records Catalogs and Publications The Arhoolie Foundation stems from the work of founder Chris Strachwitz and his seminal independent record label Arhoolie Records. In 1960,...

SPECIAL PROJECTS BY THE ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION