Chris Strachwitz, 79, is the founder of Arhoolie Records, a small, independent and absolutely amazing record label based in the Bay area, which for 50 years an endless stream of music is unclear and exquisite "Home" roots, blues, folk and Tejano. (Strachwitz is also the owner of the down home music, an equally amazing record (Yes, records, but to CDs) shop in El Cerrito, North of Berkeley, California.) It should come as no surprise, that Strachwitz has its own world class music collection. In fact, he holds the largest archive of Mexican and Mexican American music on the planet, more than 46,000 recordings on sales and 45 see slow, Archivist (and ska-punk trombonist) Antonio Cuellar is digitizing each piece and available online in the UCLA Chicano studies research center library. This week in San Francisco Bay Guardian has an interview with Strachwitz and Cuellar. From the SFBG:
von Strachwitz well-documented obsession with track Lightnin' Hopkins him in 1959, to his always scattered forays into the Woods and swamps of musical-various South, his focus on record was on excavations the real, raw, and regional significance. The diversity of music, the Arhoolie released and enough data sets in the style of dirty blues, folk ballads, Cajun Zydeco conjunto. The band, which it binds not genre, but emotional content."Hear me howl!" (SFBG)"they are very down to Earth, very alive and vibrant, all who had a rough life in particular," said Strachwitz. Perhaps best known for their bang for your buck compilations mounted by region or genre: 15 early Tejano classics, Angola prisoner's Blues, master violin, Arhoolie having folk published a number of groundbreaking single artist albums. BOGALUSA Boogie of the last Grammy Hall of Fame inductee Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jimenez 1986 Grammy-winning Ranchera album Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, and the pine leaf boys' 2007 Grammy nominated Cajun Dance Blues de Musicien illustrate Arhoolie's commitment to the unadorned authenticity.
If it was a few years as Arhoolie any new material is added, a supply of one-of-a-kind outside patiently wait for release. A recent addition to the Canon of Arhoolie is 2010 howling, hear me a hardcover Scrapbook placed a four CD collection into the handsome boundaries. This compilation of 72-track raw material, put together from a number of Bay area recording sessions by 1954-71, captures the essence of music as the musicians at the moment: a humorous reference to the Strachwitz's "new recording machine" improvised by skiffle group the skid band; a silent call for requirements of bluesman Mance Lipscomb; a short, but earnest sermon delivered by the Rev. Louis Overstreet, before he starts in a hymn to his e guitar.
"Hear me howl!" Blues, ballads & beyond: the Arhoolie 50th anniversary box set (Amazon)
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