"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/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.
"Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 17, The First Women Duets” features some of the most famous female duets, like the Mendoza Sisters and Hermanas Padilla. Prior to the 1930s, women’s involvement in Mexican music primarily centered on the vaudeville theater stage. #StoryofArhoolie https://t.co/qjb3vbdPOhThis tweet was posted on May 10, 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 (1916–2007), the first true star of Tejano music, was born in Houston to Mexican parents who fled the Mexican Revolution for South Texas. #StoryofArhoolieThis tweet was posted on November 29, 2018.
#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.
@artfullyawear Fantastic! For more about the exhibition with clips of music please follow #StoryofArhoolie! We hope you enjoy your flight! https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmvThis tweet was posted on October 25, 2018.
A highly influential blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Memphis Minnie was born in Louisiana. Minnie enjoyed a successful career performing and recording for various blues labels beginning in the 1920s and continuing well into the 1950s. #StoryofArhoolie#WomensHistoryMonthThis tweet was posted on March 12, 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.
Born in Centerville, Texas, country bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins learned to play the guitar from his older brother John Henry Hopkins. A prolific songwriter, he recorded nearly 200 songs during his career, which began in the 1940s and ended in the early 1980s. #StoryofArhoolieThis tweet was posted on April 30, 2019.
By the 1920s and ’30s, steel-guitar playing had become popular in the United States. The instrument is typically played horizontally rather than upright. #StoryofArhoolieThis tweet was posted on January 16, 2019.