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Deep Dives: Cajun Culture
The Coop is a new Valcour Records collaborative project with Louisiana musicians, chefs, storytellers, and artists of all disciplines, bringing exclusive monthly content unavailable anywhere else!...
Read MoreDeep Dives: Chris’s 91st Birthday
We celebrate the life and loves of Chris Strachwitz. Ninety one years young, Chris has devoted his life to capturing great music and sharing it with...
Read MoreDeep Dives: Los Pingüinos del Norte
Los Pingüinos del Norte have a special place in the history of Arhoolie Records. Their 1970 LP Music of La Raza Vol. 1 was the first...
Read MoreDeep Dives: Ry & Taj
For this month’s Deep Dive, we’re highlighting the work of two longtime members of the extended Arhoolie family, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, in anticipation of...
Read MoreDeep Dives: Women’s History Month
For Women’s History Month, we honor the music and stories of extraordinary women in the Arhoolie family. As musicians, singers, documentarians, tradition bearers, and organizers, these...
Read MoreDeep Dives: Black History Month
For Black History Month, the Arhoolie Foundation focuses on some of the interviews, stories, and videos that feature performers from the Arhoolie catalog. These musicians are...
Read MoreDeep Dives: Our Interview Archive
Arhoolie Records always worked to give voice to the musicians. In addition to releasing hundreds of records, hours of interviews with musicians and others were recorded...
Read MoreDeep Dives: The Strachwitz Video Collection
Chris Strachwitz spent many years taking pictures of the people, places and events that he was fortunate to be part of. In the 1980’s Chris also...
Read MoreDeep Dives: The Roots of Sacred Steel
In 1997, Arhoolie Records released its first disc of Sacred Steel music, a gospel tradition with deep roots in the African American holiness churches of the...
Read MoreDeep 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...
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