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 ...

When Chris Strachwitz died earlier this year at the age of 91, his name was probably not familiar except to a specific school of record liner note readers and aficionados of certain types of musical ...

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 ...

Selby Minner, widow of D.C. Minner and one-half of the duo Blues on the Move, was found dead near her home in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, on June 10. The trailblazing musician and blues historian ...

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 ...