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Archival processing of the Mike Hortig and Heinz Kratochwill Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Size | 180 items |
Abstract | The Mike Hortig and Heinz Kratochwill Collection consists of field recordings and photographs of American blues musicians from 1981. Austrian boogie-woogie and blues pianist, Mike Hortig, compiled the materials with his friend, Heinz Kratochwill, during a four-week-long trip to the American South. The audio recordings and photographs capture blues pianists and guitarists, including Trenton Cooper, James "Son" Thomas, Boogie Bill Webb, Mott Willis, Sam Chatmon, and others. Also included in the collection is a handwritten track listing found with one of the field recordings. |
Creator | Hortig, Mike.
Kratochwill, Heinz. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Anne Wells, March 2017
Encoded by: Anne Wells, March 2017
Archival processing of the Mike Hortig and Heinz Kratochwill Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Mike Hortig is a boogie-woogie and blues pianist from Graz, Austria that has been researching blues music since the 1970s. In May of 1980, Hortig met folklorist William R. Ferris at a celebration held at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss. At the event, Ferris introduced Hortig to artist and musician, James "Son" Thomas. Following his return to Austria, Hortig and his friend Heinz Kratochwill planned a four-week-long trip to the American South to record, interview, and photograph blues musicians. During their 1981 field recording trip, Hortig and Kratochwill visited twenty-eight musicians across the South and documented twenty-one of them. Some of their field recordings were issued on WOLF records in Vienna, Austria.
Back to TopThe Mike Hortig and Heinz Kratochwill Collection consists of field recordings and photographs of American blues musicians from 1981. Austrian boogie-woogie and blues pianist, Mike Hortig, compiled the materials with his friend, Heinz Kratochwill, during a four-week-long trip to the American South. The audio recordings and photographs capture blues pianists and guitarists, including Trenton Cooper, James "Son" Thomas, Boogie Bill Webb, Mott Willis, Sam Chatmon, and others. Field recordings are on audiocassette and digitial audio files, while photographs consist of digital scans of color photographic prints. Also included in the collection is a handwritten track listing found with one of the field recordings.
Back to TopArrangement: Original order has been maintained.
Processing information: Audiocassette titles compiled from original containers; Tape 1 is presented as digital audio files. The original Tape 1 audiocassette is not housed at SFC. Original file names have been preserved.
Digital Folder DF-20536/1 |
Tape 115 audio files (.aiff) |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/1 |
Tape 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/2 |
Tape 3Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/3 |
Tape 4Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/4 |
Tape 5Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/5 |
Tape 6Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/6 |
Tape 7Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/7 |
Tape 8Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/8 |
Tape 9: Sam Chatmon; Son ThomasAudiocassette |
Folder 1 |
J-card: Tape 9Handwritten track listing found with Tape 9 (FT-20536/8) |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/9 |
Tape 10Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/10 |
Tape 11Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/11 |
Tape 12Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20536/12 |
Tape 13Audiocassette |
Arrangement: Original order has been maintained.
Processing information: Photographs are presented as digital images. The original photographic prints are not housed at SFC. Original file names have been preserved.
Digital Folder DF-20536/2 |
Photographs153 image files (.jpg) |