214 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz 1931-2023 —Arhoolie Records

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Chris was a man possessed. “El Fanatico,” Ry Cooder called him. A song catcher, dedicated to recording the traditional, regional, down home music of America, his adopted home after his family left Germany at the close of WWII. Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton, Clifton Chenier, Rose Maddox, Flaco Jimenez… the list is long and mighty.

Chris Strachwitz was a keeper. His vault is jam-packed with 78s, 33s, 45s, reel-to-reels, cassettes, videos, photographs — an archive of all manner of recordings. And an avalanche of lifetime achievement awards — from the Grammy’s, The Blues Hall of Fame, The National Endowment for the Arts – for some 60 years of recording and preserving the musical cultural heritage of this nation through his label, Arhoolie Records.

In honor of Chris Strachwitz The Kitchen Sisters reprise The Passion of Chris Strachwitz, produced for The Goethe Institute’s Big Pond series. With interviews with Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt. Also featuring selected interviews done by Chris Strachwitz with Howlin’ Wolf and The Maddox Brothers and Rose.

Produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell, mixed by Jim McKee.

The Kitchen Sisters Present is part of the Radiotopia network from PRX.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present from PRX.
0:05.7	We are the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva.
0:09.5	Hi, it's Nikki of the Kitchen Sisters and I'm excited to tell you about a new show coming
0:15.0	to Radio Topia.
0:16.6	It's called Weight for It, not Weight, W-A-I-T, like Weight for Me, or Weight Weight Don't
0:24.2	Tell Me, but Weight, W-E-I-G-H-T.
0:28.4	That thing that many in our society are concerned with gaining or losing.
0:33.0	Weight for It is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking
0:37.4	about their weight.
0:39.1	Creator and host Ronald Young Jr. is seeking to have the conversations about our bodies
0:43.7	that are often understated and sometimes flat out unsaid.
0:48.3	He kicks the show off with his own story, wondering if he can ever truly be desirable
0:53.1	as a fat man.
0:54.6	He then brings us stories of all types of folks, fat and straight-sized, who can't seem
0:59.8	to keep weight off their minds.
1:02.2	New episodes starting August 17th, subscribe to Weight for It Today, wherever you listen
1:07.6	to podcasts.
1:09.6	Today, we're celebrating Chris Strockowitz, record producer and founder of our Huli Records,
1:21.6	one of the leading labels, Recording Roots Music, Border Music, Mexican Music, Cajun
1:27.5	Zlataco, Sacred Steel, and so much more.
1:31.7	Chris passed on this last week at age 91 years of age, a well-spid life.
1:37.4	It's hard to describe what an inspiration and friend Chris has been to the kitchen sisters.
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