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Chris Strachwitz: Slices From Arhoolie

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 1985

EL CERRITO, Calif. – "Since I only record music I really love, it's like being a preacher or a junkie," mused Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records. "You always want to convert somebody to the stuff you love. I still get off on documenting people. I guess I just like to collect people's lives or something."

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