"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. #StoryofArhoolie https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv This tweet was posted on May 10, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX #StoryofArhoolie#ArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 03, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX #StoryofArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 26, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX #storyofarhoolieThis tweet was posted on February 21, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX #storyofarhoolieThis tweet was posted on April 17, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX This tweet was posted on January 31, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX This tweet was posted on November 08, 2018.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #StoryofArhoolieThis tweet was posted on April 30, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #storyofarhoolieThis tweet was posted on May 23, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #storyofarhoolieThis tweet was posted on May 16, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #womenshistorymonthThis tweet was posted on March 27, 2019.
#Arhoolie Records’ subsidiary label Blues Classics was the first to reintroduce the work of Memphis Minnie to a new audience. Minnie enjoyed a successful career performing beginning in the 1920s and continuing well into the 1950s. #TheStoryofArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 31, 2019.
#ElizabethCotten won a Grammy in 1985 at the age of 90 for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for her Arhoolie LP, which she recorded in her late 80s. Her finger-picking guitar style has been emulated by numerous folk-guitar players. #StoryofArhoolie#WomensHistoryMonthThis tweet was posted on March 21, 2019.
#LydiaMendoza's fervent vocals accompanied by her twelve-string guitar have long captivated audiences in Spanish-speaking America. "Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #/StoryofArhoolie This tweet was posted on November 29, 2018.
#ManceLipscomb referred to himself as a “songster;” his vast repertoire included everything from blues to narrative ballads, spirituals, popular songs, dance tunes, children’s songs, and work songs dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. #StoryofArhoolie#ArhoolieThis tweet was posted on September 27, 2018.
#OnThisDay in 2011, the new Terminal 2 opened at SFO. On view there now is "Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records." Have you seen it yet? https://t.co/LZ46UL9SuX This tweet was posted on April 14, 2019.
A unique form of #gospel music, #SacredSteel music features lap and pedal steel #guitars. Developed in the 1930s by members of the House of God, music serves as an integral part of their church services. #StoryofArhoolie#Arhoolie https://t.co/ZxjCgBFJobThis tweet was posted on December 19, 2018.
According to Chris Strachwitz, “Narciso [Martínez] was a fast and snappy player…so efficient at the accordion that he was able to record twenty titles in one day.” #StoryofArhoolie#ArhoolieThis tweet was posted on November 20, 2018.
Although Cleveland Chenier was not the first to play a rubboard, his younger brother Clifton was the first to design this instrument to fit like a vest over his chest, a style which came to be emulated by other zydeco musicians who followed after him. #StoryofArhoolie#ArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 03, 2019.
Born in Centerville, Texas, country bluesman #LightninHopkins recorded nearly two-hundred songs during his career, which began in the 1940s and ended in the early 1980s. #storyofarhoolie#arhoolie https://t.co/5Stbl7yJvNThis tweet was posted on October 23, 2018.
Chris Strachwitz started Arhoolie Records in 1960 introducing eager listeners to blues, Cajun, Creole, zydeco, and Mexican-American musicians. Read more in "Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv This tweet was posted on September 21, 2018.
Cleveland Chenier, considered the most innovative and accomplished rubboard player, beat and scraped the instrument with bottle openers—six on each hand—to create varied sounds. #StoryofArhoolie#ArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 03, 2019.
Cleveland Chenier, the older brother of the "King of Zydeco" Clifton Chenier, played the rubboard in Clifton's zydeco band. The rubboard is a rhythm instrument made from a corrugated steel board. #StoryofArhoolie#ArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 03, 2019.
Clifton Chenier (1925–87), considered the “King of Zydeco,” invented and popularized the musical genre to audiences nationwide as well as in Europe. In 1976, Arhoolie released Chenier’s “Bogalusa Boogie,” his seventh and most famous album. #storyofarhoolie https://t.co/cYoJpTStzfThis tweet was posted on May 16, 2019.