(BCN) — Fans of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, the Beatles, early rock, jazz, gospel and bluegrass can breathe a sigh of relief – a 48-year-old El Cerrito music store now expects to be able to buy the ...

A part of music and film history preserved by a group of Bay Area artists is in limbo, as building that has housed Arhoolie Records, Les Blank Films and Down Home Music for nearly half a century could ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Chris Strachwitz died earlier this year at a San Rafael assisted living facility at the age of 91, his extensive obituary in the New York Times heralded ...

Amoeba SF is honored to present a signing of "Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz "(Chronicle Books) with co-author Joel Selvin on Sunday, November 19th ...

Beginning in 1960, the late Chris Strachwitz traveled the country recording musicians who he presented on his label Arhoolie Records. 'Down Home Music' documents decades of American music in pictures ...

Situated along a mixed-use stretch of restaurants, groceries, housing and bars in El Cerrito, the building at 10341 San Pablo Ave. is something of a museum. Or museums, to be more precise. First ...

In 1959, a California schoolteacher and blues fanatic named Chris Strachwitz got word that Lightnin' Hopkins was living and playing in Houston. Strachwitz drove to Texas as soon as he could, loved ...

Beginning in 1960, the late Chris Strachwitz traveled the country recording musicians who he presented on his label Arhoolie Records. Now the new coffee table book “Down Home Music” shares photos ...