Clifton Chenier, Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Rose Maddox, Big Mama Thornton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lydia Mendoza, Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Flaco Jimenez, No Speed Limit, The Lee Boys, The Pine Leaf Boys, The Magnolia Sisters, The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Conjunto Bernal, Santiago Jimenez Jr., The Campbell Brothers, Amede Ardoin, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Jackson, Valerio Longoria, Los Pinguinos Del Norte, Csokolom, The Carter Family, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Del McCoury, Treme Brass Band, Sonny Simmons, Aubrey Ghent, Isidro Lopez, Sonny Treadway, Don Tosti, The Savoy Family Band, and many more!
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Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, Mexican Regional, Gospel, Bluegrass, Old-Timey, Country, Jazz, World Music, Folk, and on and on and on.
On November 3, 1960, the first Arhoolie LP (LP stands for Long Play, 33 1/3 rpm record, for anyone too young to remember) arrived from the pressing plant: 250 copies of Mance Lipscomb's "Texas Sharecropper and Songster." Founder/president Chris Strachwitz and co. sat around his kitchen table gluing printed cover slicks onto black jackets. They stuffed the discs into the jackets and inserted a booklet which included Mack McCormick's interesting and informative notes and the texts of the songs. After a lot of hard work they finally had 250 "homemade" copies for sale.
Forty plus years, and a few music formats later, Chris Strachwitz is still busy releasing the music he likes, the way he likes it. Arhoolie remains an independant record label, devoted to releasing down home music. Among these are: Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, Mexico Regional, Gospel, Bluegrass, Jazz, Old-Timey, Country, Folk, and world, to name several.
Just wanted to let you know I have some samples from my latest album on myspace and would love to here what you think. I had a blast recording it with some of the best in the industry, Like James Burton (Elvis Presley's lead Guitarist) along with many more. Please stop by and have a listen. Blessings Darin Warner
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
The Sledge Grits Band Comment ca va? Hope all is well. We have a new video up, us performing Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis when we opened for Ludacris. Please watch it and then comment on our You Tube. Thank you T.S.G.B. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UPLewocKdk&feature=channel
CINCO DE MAYO KICK-OFF & DOUBLE CD-RELEASE APRIL 30 AT STARRY PLOUGH, BERKELEY
Featuring award-winning folk duo Misner & Smith, Latin-infused soul singer Pamela Parker and blues ranchero Steve Taylor-Ramírez
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Taylor-Ramírez takes his critically acclaimed Latin-infused neo-folk back to the Starry Plough. He brings with him Latin-inspired soul singer Pamela Parker and folk duo Misner & Smith (winners of West Coast Songwriters' Best Song Award).
Parker and Misner & Smith will each release new, highly praised CDs. Taylor-Ramírez will introduce his new musical genre, Blues Ranchera, taking sounds of the Mississippi Delta to the mariachi spirit of Jalisco, Mex.
ETHNIC GROOVES, FUNKY STUFF, WATHEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT. A HUGE CALF SKIN BASS DRUM THAT CAN'T LIE, VIRTUOSO GUITARS, ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES COMING OUT OF THAT HAMMOND B3 MONSTER. REAL MUSICIANS RAISED ON A STEADY DIET OF CHICAGO BLUES, MEMPHIS ROCKABILLY, STAX SOUL & KINGSTON DUB PLAYING THE KINDA MUSIC WHERE EVERY NOTE COUNTS. FANTASTIC DRUM SOLOS, ABSTRACT MOODS, NASHVILLE GUITAR LICKS, A TOUCH OF BE-BOP. NEW ORLEANS GUMBO, DEEP BASS, BOOM-BOOM-BOOM LOVERS, A SWAMPY BLUESY BACKGROUND, ORGANIC SOUNDS>THE ELECTROROOTS PROJECT by Fabian Jolivet - Featuring Rick Holmstrom, Skip Edwards, Freddy Koella, Deacon Jones, T. Nakamura, Pete Mazich, Jah Faith, Tony Martin, Oliver Steinberg, Geoffrey 'Mouth' Grange, Carmelo Luggeri, Botafogo, Ciro Fogliata, Michael Tempo, etc...
ETHNIC GROOVES, FUNKY STUFF, WATHEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT. A HUGE CALF SKIN BASS DRUM THAT CAN'T LIE, VIRTUOSO GUITARS, ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES COMING OUT OF THAT HAMMOND B3 MONSTER. REAL MUSICIANS RAISED ON A STEADY DIET OF CHICAGO BLUES, MEMPHIS ROCKABILLY, STAX SOUL & KINGSTON DUB PLAYING THE KINDA MUSIC WHERE EVERY NOTE COUNTS. FANTASTIC DRUM SOLOS, ABSTRACT MOODS, NASHVILLE GUITAR LICKS, A TOUCH OF BE-BOP. NEW ORLEANS GUMBO, DEEP BASS, BOOM-BOOM-BOOM LOVERS, A SWAMPY BLUESY BACKGROUND, ORGANIC SOUNDS>THE ELECTROROOTS PROJECT by Fabian Jolivet - Featuring Rick Holmstrom, Skip Edwards, Freddy Koella, Deacon Jones, T. Nakamura, Pete Mazich, Jah Faith, Tony Martin, Oliver Steinberg, Geoffrey 'Mouth' Grange, Carmelo Luggeri, Botafogo, Ciro Fogliata, Michael Tempo, etc...
ETHNIC GROOVES, FUNKY STUFF, WATHEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT. A HUGE CALF SKIN BASS DRUM THAT CAN'T LIE, VIRTUOSO GUITARS, ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES COMING OUT OF THAT HAMMOND B3 MONSTER. REAL MUSICIANS RAISED ON A STEADY DIET OF CHICAGO BLUES, MEMPHIS ROCKABILLY, STAX SOUL & KINGSTON DUB PLAYING THE KINDA MUSIC WHERE EVERY NOTE COUNTS. FANTASTIC DRUM SOLOS, ABSTRACT MOODS, NASHVILLE GUITAR LICKS, A TOUCH OF BE-BOP. NEW ORLEANS GUMBO, DEEP BASS, BOOM-BOOM-BOOM LOVERS, A SWAMPY BLUESY BACKGROUND, ORGANIC SOUNDS>THE ELECTROROOTS PROJECT by Fabian Jolivet - Featuring Rick Holmstrom, Skip Edwards, Freddy Koella, Deacon Jones, T. Nakamura, Pete Mazich, Jah Faith, Tony Martin, Oliver Steinberg, Geoffrey 'Mouth' Grange, Carmelo Luggeri, Botafogo, Ciro Fogliata, Michael Tempo, etc...
WE ARE VERY SAD... WE DON'T HAVE WORDS TO SAY ANYMORE... OUR SINGER AND DOBRO PLAYER ENRICO MICHELETTI IS DEAD. GOODBYE ENRICO KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!
Three singer-composers present the Bay Area’s first tribute to great Mexican songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez (King of the Mariachis) on Thursday night, Oct. 9, at La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley.
Presenting the bilingual homage will be Berkeley’s Steve Taylor-Ramírez (http://www. myspace.com/thestevetaylor), Oakland’s soulful groove goddess Theresa Perez (http://www.myspace.com/theresaperez) and San Francisco’s award-winning trovador Alfredo Gomez (http://www.myspace.com/alfredoguitarra).
For more info, please see: http://www.lapena.org/event/880
