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‘The biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see’: why no one sang the blues like Big Mama Thornton

Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straight

The Guardian - UK

‘He made the dust fly!’ Mick Jagger and others on 100 years of Clifton Chenier, the king of zydeco

Whether playing the Royal Albert Hall or a rooster fight, Chenier’s scorching Creole blues blew minds. As a tribute album is released, starry admirers and family members remember one of history’s great live performers

The Guardian - UK

Review: Photographic Glimpses at 20th Century Roots Music

Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz's photos document blues, country, and Cajun music.

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Letter: Chris Strachwitz obituary

Garth Cartwright writes: Chris Strachwitz’s greatest passion lay in amassing the biggest collection of Mexican records

The Guardian - UK

Let the good times roll

Last month, one of the great explorers and producers of American vernacular music, Chris Strachwitz, passed away. He was 91 years old. He was the founder and co-owner (with Tom Diamant) of Arhoolie Records which since its first release in 1960, Texas Sharecropper And Songster by Texan bluesman Mance Lipscomb,…

Bangkok Post

Chris Strachwitz obituary

Founder of Arhoolie Records who captured unheard voices and did much to increase the international profile of American roots music

The Guardian - UK

Chris Strachwitz, founded Arhoolie label, dies age 91

Producer and musicologist Chris Strachwitz has died

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