Do You Like American Music?
American ethnic and regional "roots" music in the ears of the Bay Area's Chris Strachwitz. Strachwitz is the founder of Arhoolie Records, a legendary collection of field recordings and re-issues of artists ranging from bluesman Lightning Hopkins and zydeco king Clifton Chenier, to Freddie Fender (in Spanish) and Western swingstress Rose Maddox. Popular artists from Dylan to the Rolling Stones drew extensively on Arhoolie recordings.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: American Music Violent Femmes
Add It Up 1981-1993, Slash
That'll Be the Day Buddy Holly
Greatest Hits, MCA
Dirty Willie Mongo Santamaria
Skin On Skin 1958-1995, Rhino
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid King Pleasure
King Pleasure Sings, Fantasy
Instrumental: Jumpin' With Symphony Sid Lester Young
The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young, Blue Note
INTERVIEW: Chris Strachwitz
Murmullo Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
Complainin Lucky Roberts
Lucky & Lion: Harlem Piano, Fantasy
But Not for Me Kermit Ruffins
Swing This, Basin Street
Instrumental: Crawfishin' Marcia Ball
Let Me Play With Your Poodle, Rounder
I Know That's Right Katie Webster
I Know That's Right, Arhoolie
Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills
Hall Of Fame, United Artists
This Should Go On Forever Rod Bernard
Swamp Pop, Jin
Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Mercury
One More Mile to Go Otis Spann & James Cotton
The Blues Never Die, Fantasy
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Jerry Lee Lewis
Oxford American 1999
End Bed: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Art Tatum
The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces, Pablo
HOUR TWO
Promised Land Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige
Moses Smote the Water Golden Gate
Swing Down Chariot, Columbia
Hora Atik Paradox Trio
The Jewish Alternative Movement, Knitting Factory
INTERVIEW: Peter Sokolow
Ot Azoy Klezmer Plus
The Soul of Klezmer, Network
Instrumental: Bucket's Got A Hole In It Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers
New Orleans: The Living Legends, Riverside
It's Time to Make a Change Lively Stones
Saints Paradise, Folkways
Just a Closer Walk with Thee Treme Brass Band
Gimme My Money Back, Arhoolie
My God is Real Al Green
Livin' for You, Hi Records
Match Box Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Fantasy
Matchbox Ike Turner
Oxford American 1999
Matchbox Carl Perkins
The Classics, Bear Family
Instrumental: Water Boy Link Wray
Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years, Polydor
Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come, Island
Take Me Home, Country Roads Toots & the Maytals
Time Tough, Island