Podcasts Society & Culture Personal Journals The Kitchen Sisters Present 125 - The Passion of Chris StrachwitzArhoolie Records

125 - The Passion of Chris StrachwitzArhoolie Records

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 1 p.m.

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Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. \\u201cEl Fanatico,\\u201d Ry Cooder calls him.\\xa0A song catcher, dedicated to recording the traditional, regional, down home music of America, his adopted home after his family left Germany at the close of WWII. Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin\\u2019 Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton, Clifton Chenier, Rose Maddox, Flaco Jimenez\\u2026 the list is long and mighty.

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Chris Strachwitz is a keeper.\\xa0His vault is jam-packed with 78s, 33s, 45s, reel-to-reels, cassettes, videos, photographs \\u2014 an archive of all manner of recordings. And an avalanche of lifetime achievement awards \\u2014 from the Grammy\\u2019s, The Blues Hall of Fame, The National Endowment for the Arts \\u2013 for some 60 years of recording and preserving the musical cultural heritage of this nation through his label, Arhoolie Records.

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Featuring interviews with Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt.

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\\u201cThe Passion of Chris Strachwitz\\u201d was produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell, mixed by Jim McKee. For The Goethe Institute\\u2019s Big Pond series.

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