Arhoolie Sale

[kh1958]

Buy four or more from the overstock list and they are $5 each. http://chulasfronteras.com/overstock-sale-items/

Buy 3 or more other CDs at 20% off (they have a stock of Neatworks).

[Stefan Wood]

It's worth it for the Jerry Hahn, the two Sonny Simmons and the Smiley Winters. I recommend all of those discs!

[kh1958]

It's worth it for the Jerry Hahn, the two Sonny Simmons and the Smiley Winters. I recommend all of those discs!

I ordered the Jerry Hahn and one of the Sonny Simmons. That Earl Hooker CD, The Moon is Rising, is another one to get.

[jeffcrom]

There are some good ones on this list. I particularly like A New Orleans Visit Before Katrina. It feature various ensembles, including three tracks recorded on parade by the Treme Brass Band. I consider those to be some of the best New Orleans brass band recordings of the last 15 years - those bands just sound different on the street than in a club.

[paul secor]

Offhand, I can recommend the Chuck Guillery, Earl Hooker, Elder Roma Wilson, Sonny Simmons: Live in Paris, and the I Have To Paint My Face collection.

Knowing Chris Strachwicz' (the owner of Arhoolie Records) releases in other genres, I'm sure that there are a lot of Mexican and Tex-Mex recordings on that list that are worth hearing, but I'm not familiar enough with that music to recommend anything.

Edited February 19, 2010 by paul secor

[Neal Pomea]

Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin with Canray Fontenot - La Musique Creole

The best portion of that cd was recorded by Dick Spottswood in Falls Church, Virginia in 1966 when Ardoin and Fontenot were returning to Louisiana from performing at the Newport Folk Festival. Probably the best black Creole music recorded since the 1930s. Accordion, fiddle, and triangle.

[Big Wheel]

The sale is obviously over, but bumping this topic....just because. Been digging this label lately. That Treme Brass Band record is indeed very good - I'm a sucker for the Atlantic New Orleans Mosaic and this has the same energy of some of those bands.

Other great Arhoolie sessions:

Much of the sacred steel guitar stuff

Clifton Chenier - Bogalusa Boogie

Big Mama Thornton With Muddy Waters

There's also a ton of unusual world music (early Hawaiian, Tonga, Samoa, Sarawak, Colombia, Peru)

[Head Man]

It's worth it for the Jerry Hahn, the two Sonny Simmons and the Smiley Winters. I recommend all of those discs!

I'd forgotten the Sonny Simmons were on Arhoolie. Yes, they're definitely worth getting...even at full price.

[kh1958]

Actually, they are having a current sale--20% off with order of three or more.

A few other good ones in the blues arena are: Big Mama Thornton, Ball and Chain; LIghtnin' Hopkins, Gold Star Sessions; Lowell Fulson, My First Recordings; Mance Lipscomb, Texas Songster and You Got to Reap What You Sow; the anthology Texas Blues; and Smokey Babe, Louisiana Country Blues.