Tag: Chris Strachwitz
2023 Year-End Letter
Dear Arhoolie family, As the year comes to a close, we remember our founder and inspiration, Chris Strachwitz, whom we lost on May 5 at the...
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What a Difference a Date Makes
By John Leopold, Managing Director The Arhoolie Foundation collections contain a multitude of items that were acquired by a collector. Chris Strachwitz collected records, tapes, posters,...
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Record Store Clerk Turns Librarian
Record Store Clerk Turns Librarian and Takes a Deep Dive into the Strachwitz Archives By Jessica Luther, Archives Intern In high school, I had a lone...
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Who Fired the First Shot?
By John Leopold, Managing Director Working with Chris Strachwitz is always a joyous adventure. From reviewing tapes he made in the 1960s to looking over posters...
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On the Road with Chris Strachwitz in the Fall of ‘68
By Clark Noone, Archivist November 1968. It was the wake of a seismic presidential election and the end of a tumultuous year of political and cultural...
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John Hogg Interview
I don’t know. It’s just in me. It’s in me. They say- Actually, the guys, since I’ve been on the west coast have changed me over kind of on the modern kick, but I still can’t away from this.
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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.”
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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....
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Los Pingüinos del Norte
I believe when I first heard Mexican music on the radio, there was a little station in Santa Paula, which is very close south of Santa Barbara. And in the afternoons, I would sneak back into my room sometimes.
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Chris Strachwitz 1956 New Orleans
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 took a bus to New Orleans for his first visit to his “city of dreams”. Here is an interview with Mr. Strachwitz talking about that trip and the photos he took.
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