Europeans have long played a vital role in the preservation of American music: There have been scholars such as Paul Oliver, an Englishman who in the 1950s and ’60s published some of the earliest and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Chris Strachwitz died earlier this year at a San Rafael assisted living facility at the age of 91, his extensive obituary in the New York Times heralded ...

(BCN) — Fans of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, the Beatles, early rock, jazz, gospel and bluegrass can breathe a sigh of relief – a 48-year-old El Cerrito music store now expects to be able to buy the ...

A part of music and film history preserved by a group of Bay Area artists is in limbo, as building that has housed Arhoolie Records, Les Blank Films and Down Home Music for nearly half a century could ...

Beginning in 1960, the late Chris Strachwitz traveled the country recording musicians who he presented on his label Arhoolie Records. 'Down Home Music' documents decades of American music in pictures ...

In 1959, a California schoolteacher and blues fanatic named Chris Strachwitz got word that Lightnin' Hopkins was living and playing in Houston. Strachwitz drove to Texas as soon as he could, loved ...

Situated along a mixed-use stretch of restaurants, groceries, housing and bars in El Cerrito, the building at 10341 San Pablo Ave. is something of a museum. Or museums, to be more precise. First ...

A discographical guide to more than 3,000 blues and gospel LPs, CDs, and cassettes with information on the featured artists, and the quality and availability of the recordings ...

Founded by Chris Strachwitz, the California label has been recording and distributing hard-to-find blues, Cajun and Mexican-American music since... Arhoolie Records: 50 Years Of Digging For Down-Home ...

WITH US. THE DOWNHOME MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO REIDSVILLE TOMORROW AFTERNOON, AND THERE’S STILL TIME TO GRAB A TICKET AND NOT MISS OUT ON A DAY FULL OF LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM AREA ARTISTS. HERE TO ...