1. San Francisco Bay Blues - Fuller, Jesse
2. Mercury Blues - Douglas, K.C.
3. Shake, Shake Mama - Lipscomb, Mance
4. Cairo Blues - Jackson, Melvin
5. Barbershop Rhythm - Walton, Wade
6. One Thin Dime - Cage, Butch
7. Charmin' Betsy - Public Domain [1]
8. Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Moore, Alexander He
9. I Am the Black Ace - Turner, B.K.
10. Brother James - Williams, Big Joe
11. Lady Luck - Walton, Mercy Dee
12. Don't Drive Me Away - Smith, R.C.
13. Zydeco Introduction
14. Bernadette Chere - Chevalier, Albert
15. Bald Headed Woman - Hopkins, Lightnin'
16. Baby Please Don't Go - Williams, Big Joe
17. Believe on Me - Overstreet, Louis
18. Low Down Blues - Lewis, George [Clar
19. The Country Blues - Public Domain [1]
20. Crowley Waltz - Darbone, Luderin
21. She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain - Public Domain [1]
22. Ay, Ai Ai - Chenier, Clifton
23. Write Me a Few Lines - McDowell, Mississip
24. James, Charlie - Lipscomb, Mance
25. Louisiana Blues - Chenier, Clifton
26. Cindy - Public Domain [1]
27. Little Red Rooster - Burnett, Chester Ar
28. La Betaille - Public Domain [1]
29. Calcasieu Waltz - Lejune, Iry
30. Almlied - Public Domain [1]
31. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Bond, Johnny
32. In the Breeze - Hahn, Jerry
33. Going Back to the Country - Bonner, Weldon
34. Sometimes I Cry - Young, Johnny
35. Two Bugs and a Roach - Hooker, Earl
36. Dream - Funchess, John
37. Things Gonna Get Better - Houston, Bee
38. Visions - Simmons, Sonny
39. I Wish I Could Sing - Coleman, George
40. Boogieing in Strasbourg - Moore, Alexander He
41. The Death of Doctor King - Williams, Big Joe
42. Please Settle in Vietnam - Hopkins, Lightnin'
43. Shake 'Em on Down - Woods, Johnny
44. El Desesperado - Juarez, Ruben Casti
45. Creole Belles - Lampe, J. Bodewalt
46. Finger Lickin' Good - Musselwhite, Charli
47. Church Point Breakdown - Public Domai
48. Gstanzelm Aus Dem Freistriztal - Public Domain [1]
49. Gibson Creek Shuffle - Fprd, Robben
50. Ups and Downs - Robinson, L.C.
51. You Ain't Got a Chance - Perryman, Willie
52. Home Sweet Home - Public Domai
53. Satan's Burning Hell - Neely, Bil
54. Luzita - Martinez, Narciso
55. Yo Me Enamore - Public Domain [1]
56. Borracho Perdido - Public Domain [1]
57. One of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - Burris, J.C.
58. Allons a Grand Coteau (Let's Go to Grand Coteau) - Chenier, Clifton
59. Under the Green Oak Tree (En Bas du Chêne Vert) - Menard, D.L.
60. Besos y Copas - Cordero, Victor Aur
61. Fast Santa Fe (Bear Cat) - Shaw, Robert
62. I'll See You in C-U-B-A - Berlin, Irving
63. El Balaj
64. La Gata
65. Beym Rebns Sude (At the Rebbe's Meal) - Public Domai
66. J' Ai Laisse de la Maiso - Read, Wallace Chees
67. Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio - Jimenez, Santiago H
68. Mi Problema
69. Grítenme Piedras del Campo - Sanchez, Cuco
70. Co-Fé? (Why?) - Delafose, John
71. Single Girl - Maddox, Rose
72. Bee de la Manche - Fontenot, Canray
73. Bosco Stomp - Public Domain [1]
74. Negra Ausencia - Jimeniz, Santiago J
75. La Chanson de Cinquante Sous - Public Domain [1]
76. Shake What You Got - Thomas, Leo
77. 'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) - Walker, Lawrence
78. The Chill of a Saturday Afternoon - Fruge, Wade
79. Jolie Blonde - Public Domain [1]
80. Here to Stay (P.I.E.) - Ruffins, Kermit
81. I Know That's Right - Webster, Katie
82. I've Been There - Ardoin, Lawrence
83. Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Bernal, Manuel
84. Aguililla - Public Domain [1]
85. La Reine de la Salle (The Queen of the Dance Hall) - Public Domain [1]
86. Chanson de la Sagesse (Ballad of Wisdom) - Public Domain [1]
87. Hot Chili Mama - Doucet, Michael
88. Check Out the Zydeco - Chenier, C.J.
89. El Canoero - Public Domain [1]
90. Corrido del Mono (Ballad of "The Monkey")
91. San Francisco Can Be Such a Lonely Town - Sharriff, Omar
92. Mother - Public Domai
93. Gumagarrugu - Justo, Don
94. Khandan -E Amaturi III - Herawi, Aziz
95. A Ti, Colombia - Cuesta, Ivan
96. Food Stamp Blues - Nelson, Lionel
97. Ain't It a Shame - Wilson, Roma
98. J'Ai Été au Bal - Public Domain [1]
99. La Mal Sentada - Davila, Pedro
100. Falling for You - Owens, Bonnie
101. Los Traficantes del Bravo - Palomares, Cornelio
102. Jesus Will Fix It for You - Public Domai
103. Medved Na Lancu (The Bear on the Chain) - Klewitz, Anti Vo
104. Jale Griego - Public Domai
105. El Corrido de Esquiel Hernandez - Jimenez, Santiago J
106. What's His Name?...Jesus! - Public Domain [1]
107. Just a Closer Walk With Thee - Traditional
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Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell, Louisiana zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier, and Tex-Mex conjunto accordionist Flaco Jimenez are just a few of the regional mainstays to achieve national renown through Arhoolie, and all of them are represented here. The spirited diversity of the 105 selections (including 13 available on CD for the first time) finds the label extending its reach from string-band country (Hackberry Ramblers) to hard-driving jazz (Jerry Hahn Quintet) to New Orleans brass bands to more recent forays into "sacred steel," featuring gospel music with pedal-steel guitar. Where so many folk preservations might as well be embalming musical relics, Arhoolie champions "vernacular music": music that retains a strong, integral connection to its community and gets people clapping, stomping, and dancing. Throughout the set, the immediacy of the performances transcends trendiness or timeliness, showing how America sounds beyond the plasticity of popular culture. --Don McLeese
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Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz 1960-2000
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2000-09-26)
- Publisher: Arhoolie Records
- Label: Arhoolie Records
- Format: Box set, Extra tracks
- Studio: Arhoolie Records
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Music: #170622
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Summary: These are the keepers of America's soul.... 2007-08-16
Comment: When I put the first Disc A on the player I was not impressed. I quickly skipped to Discs D & E. These I loved, especially having enjoyed a free open-air concert in Davis, CA by the Beausoleil in July '07. A whole new chapter in my music enjoyment opened up. I went back to Discs A & B and found to my surprise that I began to like them even more as I visualized in my mind the artistes actually playing and singing. Now I know where the CCR got their hits from. It is from these humble and often unsung champions of the American roots music. You ain't listened to nothing yet, till you go through this set of music one number at a time. Listen, appreciate, digest, and breath out a sigh of relief that it was recorded and brought out in the digital format for us enjoy and learn! This set should form part of any serious collector of not only American roots music but any music for it nourishes the soul of all who listen...
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Summary: You'll enjoy this journey! 2005-01-18
Comment: If you're a fan of living/breathing folk music, not whitebread I-gave-my-love-a-cherry acoustic music,but vibrant music from backwoods, churches and back alley sub-cultures obscured and ignored by the modern world, then this collection is for you.
In the early 80's I became a big fan of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco. Collecting his records was the first time I encountered the Arhoolie label. I began to see that other artists I enjoyed were also on the label Beasoleil, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb and others. It got to where I'd buy records just because of that red and black label. Even if I'd never heard of the artist I could always bank on the record being interesting and that is all because of Chris Strachwitz. He's the owner but he's also the guy out there beating the bushes to find this stuff and most of the music collected here he recorded himself in the field.
Arhoolie has managed to remain an independent record label which is saying something in this day and age and that independence keeps it vital. There is a recording in this collection by a street artist name Bongo Joe, whose music is essentially Joe improvising lyrics while beating out a rythm on a metal 50 gal. oil drum. Everytime I hear this track I smile because it's so wild and also because I know this guy would be out in the street doing this whether someone recorded him or not. Thank god someone did and they did it because they saw the intrinsic value in this mans art, not the chance to make a million dollars.
The booklet that accompanies the collection is full of wonderful photos, history and stories. Mr. Strachwitz shares his field recording technique of having one microphone in the center with the artists gathered around it which lends these recordings a comfortable charm. I could not agree more with the reviewer who said this collection is a nice companion to the Anthology of American Folk Music, it provides a nice bookend for that hallowed collection. I started out by saying this is living/breathing folk music. I did not mean to infer that these artists are still alive (though some are), rather that the sub-cultures that spawned these artists are still out there. We should all take comfort in that.
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Summary: Great set and great value for money 2002-01-27
Comment: This is a truly wondrful set that works on every level.Beautifully presented with a very informative book and five high quality CD's. The sound quality is superb as are all the production values. The mixture of world music, old-time music and American regional sounds, as repesented in the output of Arhoolie Records, works extremely well here. I found my self playing all 5 CD's one after the other without strain and enjoying them all. Once having heard many of the artists for te first time the search wil then commence for solo albums if they exist, and they probably do in most cases. If this were a "Bear Family" set there would certainly be another $... on the askng price. If you are already a fan of this type of musci or are looking to explore it furter this really is THE set to buy as a starting point. All the tracks are strong and there is no "padding" at all. Combine this with a quite outstanding book giving full details on the artists and the history of Arhoolie and this is a set that will be cherished for years to come and played with great regularity. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A Treasury of Obscurities 2001-10-18
Comment: I wasn't sure how I was going to like this box set when I bought it because I had never heard of most of the artists. When I first obtained it, I listened through once then put it on the shelf. On a recent road trip, I decided to put all 5 CDs in my CD changer to listen to in sequence and lemme tell you, am I ever glad to have done so.
The Journey of Chris Strachwitz is a musical journey through parts of America most of us never see or hear. There is Cajun, Zydeco, country, Tejano, blues, gospel and more. There is not the polished, overproduced kind of music one often hears on the radio, but rather the raw authenticity of music being played straight from the heart. Most of these musicians have made very little money in the business and are forced to do other work in order to make ends meet. Its a shame because just the small sampling here shows me that most of these artists have more talent than an army of top-40 schlocksters like Backstreet Boys and Madonna.
I am not equally enthusiastic about every song, but I was introduced to many performers from whom I want to hear more. Its hard to choose favorites, but I was impressed with Mance Lipscomb, the Reverend Louis Overstreet, Lydia Mendoza, Valerio Longoria, Omar Sharriff, Chatuye, The Campbell Brothers, and Aubrey Ghent in addition to more familiar performers like Clifton Chenier, Charlie Musselwhite, and any of the Jimenez clan. The worst song on the album is more pleasurable listening than most of the vapid pap served up on commercial radio.
With the CDs comes an informative booklet, filled with photos and stories of the performers and the sometimes serendipitous ways that Strachwitz hooked up with them.
If your musical taste runs the gamut, you should like this fairly priced box set. Chris Strachwitz did American music a tremendous turn when he set out to capture the sound of the folk before it was lost to us forever. I give this treasury of obscurities my heartiest recommendation. You won't be sorry you bought this!
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Summary: a real summer journey 2001-05-23
Comment: This is a really strong collection of hard to find artists that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of American music and culture. The blues is incredible. The cajun and zydeco numbers are unbeatable. Same is true of bluegrass, texmex, gospel. Where did rock get its start? Forget the name artists who've received all the accolades, these are the artists that influenced the names. The real deal - presented in its raw format as much as possible. Despite 5 CDs of material, weak tracks are hard to find.
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Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz 1960-2000
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