Arhoolie Records is a small record label run by Chris Strachwitz. The label was founded by Strachwitz in 1960 as a way for him to record and publish previously obscure "down home blues" artists such as Lightning Hopkins, and still publishes mainly blues and folk music. A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in producing, manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and sometimes video recordings (especially music videos), on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Lightnin Hopkins album cover Sam Lightnin Hopkins (March 15, 1912-January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitar legend, from Houston, Texas. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... It has been suggested that Folkies be merged into this article or section. ...
External Links
Arhoolie Records Official Page
The Arhoolie Records Story
See also
List of record labels The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...
ArhoolieRecords came to California DVD with two products released on VHS since the 1980s.
Producer and ArhoolieRecords Founder Chris Strachwitz had an additional 30 pages of text that needed to be incorporated into the menus as background information on each scene and song.
ArhoolieRecords now has an easy to navigate, legible, and information filled DVD that will help preserve this slice of musical history for generations.
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