The name Arhoolie, suggested by fellow musicologist Mack McCormick, is allegedly a regional expression for field holler. I just catch it as it is,” he explained in the 2014 documentary "This Ain't No Mouse Music." He founded Arhoolie in 1960 and over the following decades traveled to Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana among other states on a mission that rarely relented: taping little-known artists in their home environments, be it a dance hall, a front porch, a beer joint, a backyard. Admired by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many others, Strachwitz was an unlikely champion of the American vernacular - a native German born into privilege who fell deeply for his adopted country’s music and was among the most intrepid field recorders to emerge after Alan Lomax.
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