On November 3, 1960, the first Arhoolie LP (stands for Long Play, 33 1/3 rpm record, for you young folks!) arrived from the pressing plant: 250 copies of Mance Lipscomb’s “Texas Sharecropper and Songster.”
Today Arhoolie not only continues to produce its own CDs but also acts as the sole US importer for the fine Dutch Pan world music label AND the Austrian Document firm which has been documenting “the complete recorded works of every pre-war Blues and Gospel artist” not otherwise available and are now well into the full documentation of early white Country music.