Europeans have long played a vital role in the preservation of American music: There have been scholars such as Paul Oliver, an Englishman who in the 1950s and ’60s published some of the earliest and ...

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 ...

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 ...