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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
Listen - 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
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 - 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
