For the past 37 years, Down Home Music Store has sat on a lonely block in El Cerrito, Calif. For all that time, Chris Strachwitz has stocked the store with a treasure trove of American roots music. He ...
Les Blank (with beer) and Chris Strachwitz (with microphone) capture interviews for the 1976 documentary Chulas Fronteras. Credit: Chris Strachwitz © Arhoolie ...
Chris Strachwitz can’t seem to go 10 minutes without playing music. As he tells the fabled history of Arhoolie Records, the El Cerrito-based label he founded in 1960, he finds it necessary to mix ...
Chris STRACHWITZ, an avid music explorer, felt like a visitor in a foreign world when he started collecting Mexican records half a century ago. He had no music catalogs to guide him. No sales charts ...
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!: The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records (2014) is a feature-length documentary about Chris that captures his enthusiasms and outspoken, sometimes tetchy, ...
Chris Strachwitz, a nationally renowned musicologist who founded Arhoolie Records in El Cerrito and helped preserve and popularize the work of scores of authentic American roots musicians, died Friday ...
THE sign on the wall of the building that serves as the home of Arhoolie Records here, just north of Berkeley, promises “down home music,” and for 50 years, often operating on a shoestring, and a thin ...
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