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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez ~ Various Artists |  |
| 2. Co-Fe - John Delafose ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Single Girl - Rose Maddox ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark/Hector Duhon ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr. ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Shake What You Got - Preston Frank ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon, The - Wade Fruge ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. I Know That's Right - Katie Webster ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. El Canoero - Valerio Longoria ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland ~ Various Artists | |
| 23. San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff ~ Various Artists | | Disc 5
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers ~ Various Artists | |
| 2. Gumagarugu - Chatuye ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Falling For You - Rose Maddox ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Jale Griego - Jose Moreno ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez Jr. ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. What's His Name?-Jesus - The Campbell Brothers ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent ~ Various Artists | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Contains a 66-page booklet. | | Compilation producer: Chris Strachwitz, Elijah Wald. | | Includes liner notes by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald. | | Digitally remastered by Mike Cogan (Bay Records, Berkeley, California). | | ARHOOLIE RECORDS 40TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. | | Combine a great ear for music with a firm commitment to recording only what you personally like and you've got the formula that has fueled Arhoolie Records for 40 years. Founder Chris Strachwitz -- a German immigrant and former schoolteacher -- may have seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the great compilers of regional American popular music, but that's sure what he turned out to be. This five-disc, 95-artist label retrospective is truly monumental. On disc one, which begins before Arhoolie's launch and covers 1954-1965, blues dominate. By the the time you've worked your way through all six hours of this collection, though, you'll understand why Strachwitz could never make it as a DJ even on a blues radio station; not only does he eschew mainstream commercial music, he couldn't possibly live within any format. Just when you think you've got Arhoolie pegged as a blues label, on comes a folk number. You settle into a zydeco groove, and the set shifts into gospel. Or Tex-Mex. There's also some bluegrass here. And jazz. Incredibly, all of this music makes some sort of sense together and the quality never flags throughout. Though the bulk of the package's greatest treats come from virtual unknowns (more than a few recorded in their own homes), you may already be familiar with some of these artists, including Jesse Fuller, K.C. Douglas, Mance Lipscomb, Clifton Chenier, and Flaco Jimenez. The accompanying 68-page, 41,000-word color "booklet" is more like a book. Co-producer Elijah Wald limited selections to recordings that Strachwitz himself made or supervised -- keeping the box from mushrooming beyond five discs -- but this meant the elimination of other great material. That will have to wait for the next box. ~ Jeff Burger | | Along with fellow enthusiasts Harry Smith, Moses Asch, and the Lomaxes, German-born Chris Strachwitz has spent his life chronicling ordinary people playing the kind of American folk music generally ignored by ongoing pop trends. For this spectacular five-CD set, the label owner compiles 107 chronological tracks that he either personally recorded or was present for during a particular performance. This is no mean feat, considering that Strachwitz spent his time criss-crossing the South, hitting Houston ghettos, Louisiana juke joints, and Appalachian shanties armed with little more than a primitive recorder, the occasional companionship of a fellow music fan from the area, and a burning thirst for pure and unique sounds. | | Among the broad swath of important musicians included here who might have otherwise remained obscure or unknown had it not been for Strachwitz are Mance Lipscomb, Flaco Jimenez, and Clifton Chenier. Equally entertaining are anomalies like bluegrass great Del McCoury crooning "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight" in a Pennsylvannia living room, percussionist Bongo Joe banging out "I Wish I Could Sing" on customized oil drums, and classical Afghani lute player Aziz Herawi playing "Khandan-E Amaturi III" with his ensemble at a house party. |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 09/26/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 491 | | Label : Arhoolie | | Number of Discs : 5 | | Studio/Live : Mixed | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00096297049129 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Spin (1/01, p.76)
- Ranked #10 in Spin's "Top 10 Reissues of the Year [2000]" - "...A tribute to a remarkably inclusive vision of our great nation, and to a fine ear for juke-joint racket..."Entertainment Weekly (12/1/00, pp.98,100)
- "...The box has its share of justly obscure blues singers, mediocre folkies, and out-and-out lunatics..." - Rating: B The Wire (1/01, p.56)
- "...As gospel and bluesy psychedelia miraculously come together to form a kind of ectoplasmic rock'n'soul, you will...believe in the power of the music that is waiting to be discovered inside of this box." Living Blues (11-12/00, pp.74-5)
- "...Amazing...anyone wanting some grasp of the variety of music being performed in America needs this collection..." No Depression (11-12/00, pp.100-2)
- "...Each disc - packed to the limit with music - is like a musicology course you could dance to....6 hours of engaging, exciting music..." Mojo (Publisher)
(11/00, p.108)
- "...This is a diary of a lifelong obession with roots music and 40 years devoted to recording it..." |
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