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Chris Strachwitz 1962 Article

[feather_share] International Blues Record Club Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 1      December 1962 Searching for music in 1962 with Chris Strachwitz Now, that the commercials...

Lightning Hopkins & the Zydeco Uprising

In 1962 Chris Strachwitz was writing a blues column for Jazz Report magazine. Here is part one of three articles about his travels in the south,...

The Blues Come To Texas — Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s Unfinished Book

The book signing party and discussion with Alan Governar, Chris Strachwitz, and Joel Selvin. Held at Down Home Music in El Cerrito, California July 16, 2019....

Guillermo Hernandez Corrido Film

Watch the entire 56 minute film “El Mundo del Corrido de Guillermo Hernandez,” about the late UCLA professor Guillermo Hernandez and his love for Mexican American...

SPECIAL PROJECTS BY THE ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION

SPECIAL PROJECTS BY THE ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION

Don Santiago Jiménez Interview

Santiago Jiménez, Sr. learned to play accordion watching his father, Patricio Jiménez, who was the only accordion player Santiago recalls playing at dances around town in San Antonio, where he grew up. He talks to Chris Strachwitz about learning to play at age 10, and buying his first two-row accordion from a pawn shop in 1935. He would later become known for his consistent use of the two-row button accordion.

Joe Pullum Interview

Blues singer Joe Pullum talks with Chris Strachwitz about the music scene in Houston, TX in the 1930’s and later in Los Angeles.

Strachwitz Frontera Collection Catalog

This is a catalog of all of the recordings in the Frontera Collection, currently over 175,000 songs from 78s, 45s, LPs, Cassettes, original master tapes and...

Isidro Lopez Interview

Isidro López, “El Indio,” was born in Bishop, Texas, in 1933. He began playing tenor saxophone when he entered Miller High School in nearby Corpus Christi, an instrument he also played during the one year he attended A & I College in Kingsville.