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A sonic chameleon of sorts, Ry Cooder has always been on the forefront of popular music. Whether as a session musician (with the Rolling Stones, Randy Newman, and others) or a film-score composer (most notably in collaboration with director Wim Wenders), Cooder has succeeded in incorporating diverse styles of music into his personal sound. This self-titled 1970 release features Cooder in a blues-rock mode that also touches on a wide range of musical influences.
"Police Dog Blues" and "Dark Is the Night" are straight-up blues numbers that feature Cooder's incredible slide-guitar playing. "Pigmeat," however, finds Cooder in a different setting, exploring gritty Dixieland music. "Do Re Mi" and "My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine & Dandelion Wine)" move in yet another direction, easing into a funky, lazy groove reminiscent of the Band's MUSIC FROM BIG PINK. On several tracks, Cooder is supported by the unique orchestral arrangements of Kirby Johnson, which add color and texture to this excellent outing.
Live Recording
Adapter: Ry Cooder.
Personnel: Ry Cooder (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Ry Cooder (bass instrument); Gloria Jones (vocals, background vocals); Chris Ethridge, Max Bennett, Roy Estrada (bass instrument); John Barbata (drums); Bobby Bruce (violin); Van Dyke Parks (piano, keyboards); Richard Hayward (drums); Milt Holland (percussion).
Audio Mixer: Lee Herschberg.
Photographers: Frank Bez; Susan Titelman.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Chris Ethridge; Richard Hayward; Roy Estrada; Milt Holland; Max Bennett; Bobby Bruce; John Barbeda.
Arrangers: Van Dyke Parks; Kirby Johnson.Rolling Stone (2/4/71, p.56) - "...Cooder is the finest, most precise bottleneck player alive today..."
Rolling Stone (9/30/71, p.42) - "...one of the most completely realized attempts at a contemporary approach to blues..."
Q (8/95, p.137) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Cooder's ability to emulate the idiosyncrasy of his pre-pop heroes without imitating them on one hand or bowdlerising them on the other may yet be his genius, if not his fortune."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/95, p.113) - "Eponymous debut finds our Ryland firmly in the grip of his mission to rediscover American folk....Guthrie's 'Do Re Mi', Blind Boy Blake's 'Police Dog Blues' and the barmy 'One Meat Ball' make for a formidable introduction." Ry Cooder Review
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Purchase Ry Cooder CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Rio De Janeiro Jazz Trio Bop Till You Drop CD (1979)
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This was the first all-digital recording released by a major label.
Following his conceptual 1978 release, Jazz, Ry Cooder returned the next year with the R&B/soul-based Bop Till You Drop. The first major-label, digitally recorded album, Bop is a nice set of moderately known to obscure tunes from the '50s and '60s (along with a Cooder/Tim Drummond original) that doesn't always live up to its promise. Cooder and his excellent band, which includes the rhythm section of Tim Drummond and Jim Keltner along with guitarist David Lindley, understand the material and are more than capable of laying down a decent groove, but something must have gotten lost in translation from what was played to what came across on the recording. There's a thinness to the tracks that undermines the performances, which according to Cooder is due to the digital recording. If you check out the live version of Bop Till You Drop's opener, "Little Sister," from the No Nukes record (using the same band), you can see what surely could have been. Still, Bop is worthwhile given Cooder's penchant for choosing great tunes, as well as the tight performances, brilliant guitar work, and a handful of great guest vocalists (including Chaka Khan). A few of the highlights include his arrangement of the early-'60s ...
| | Ry Cooder Into The Purple Valley CD (1971)
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Guitarist Cooder was a respected session musician prior to launching a solo career. His distinctive style blossomed fully on this, his second album, which is a brilliant compendium of American ...
| | Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch CD (1974)
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Ry Cooder understands that a great song is a great song, whether it was written before the Depression or last week. Still, at the same time he isn't afraid to explore new avenues and possibilities for the material. Like his three previous records, Paradise and Lunch is filled with treasures which become part of a world where eras and styles converge without ever sounding forced or contrived. One may think that an album that contains a traditional railroad song, tunes by assorted blues greats, and a Negro spiritual alongside selections by the likes of Bobby Womack, Burt Bacharach, and Little Milton may lack cohesiveness or merely come across as a history lesson, but to Cooder this music is all part of the same fabric and is as relevant and accessible as anything else that may be happening at the time. No matter when it was written or how it may have been done in the past, the tracks, led by Cooder's brilliant guitar, are taken to new territory where they can coexist. It's as if Washington Phillips' "Tattler" could have shared a place on the charts with Womack's "It's All Over Now" or Little Milton's "If Walls Could Talk." That he's successful on these, as well as the Salvation Army march of "Jesus on the Mainline" or the funky, gospel feel of Blind Willie McTell's "Married Man's a Fool," is not only a credit to Cooder's talent and ingenuity as an arranger and bandleader, ...
| | Ry Cooder Chicken Skin Music CD (1976)
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Ry Cooder has always believed in the "mutuality in music," and this may be no more evident in his career than with his fifth album, Chicken Skin Music (a Hawaiian colloquialism, synonymous with goosebumps). Even more than usual, Cooder refuses to recognize borders -- geographical or musical -- presenting "Stand By Me" as a gospel song with a norte�o arrangement, or giving the Jim Reeves country-pop classic, "He'll Have to Go," a bolero rhythm, featuring the interplay of Flaco Jimenez's accordion and Pat Rizzo's alto sax. Elsewhere, he teams with a pair of Hawaiian greats -- steel guitarist and singer Gabby Pahinui and slack key guitar master Atta Isaacs -- on the Hank Snow hit "Yellow Roses" and the beautiful instrumental "Chloe." If Cooder's approach to the music is stylistically diverse, his choice of material certainly follows suit. Bookended by a couple of Leadbelly compositions, Chicken Skin Music sports a collection of songs ranging from the aforementioned tracks to the charming old minstrel/medicine show number "I Got Mine" and the syncopated R&B of "Smack Dab in the Middle." Also included is Appalachian songwriter Blind Alfred Reed's "Always Lift Him Up," complete with a Hawaiian gospel tune, "Kanaka ...
| | Ry Cooder Boomer's Story CD (1972)
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Ry Cooder spent the 1970s making a small pile of extremely cool records. One of them was BOOMER'S STORY. In 1972 Cooder was one of the hippest slide guitarists around. His singing, like his rhythm chops and arranging skills, has always been funky and distinctive. His taste for all things groovy and American and his breadth of knowledge (and/or willingness to seek out the missing details when necessary) led him to arrange his albums around themes. BOOMER'S STORY leans on the music of the 1930s and 40s for its text, yet ...
| | Eric Burdon Sings The Animals' Greatest Hits CD (1994)
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ERIC BURDON'S GREATEST ANIMAL HITS features newly recorded and arranged versions of Eric Burdon's most popular songs with his former ...
| | Yardbirds CD (1998) (Import) United Kingdom
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Original US LP release was titled "Over Under Sideways Down".
This 31 track collection features the original 12 track album from 1966 in a mono version, then the entire album in a stereo version, including 5 bonus single tracks by Keith Relf, as well as 2 mono tracks that open the disc.
By the time the Yardbirds recorded ROGER THE ENGINEER in 1966, the British Invasion was in full swing. Like their brethren, they targeted Chicago blues as ground zero for musical inspiration. As a result, most Yardbirds recordings and live sets were chock full of numbers by the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, and Elmore James. ROGER was a departure for the band, as all the material was self-penned.
With guitarist Jeff Beck leading the charge (having replaced departed blues purist Eric Clapton), the Yardbirds began exploring the possibilities of electric guitar and of rock in general. The Middle Eastern garage rock of "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" bumps up against the rockabilly swing of "Jeff's Boogie." Alongside Beck's thrilling guitar histrionics, there's the genteel English pastoral feel of "Farewell" and a quirky instrumental bubbling over with jazz bass, a rubbery-sounding beat, and chanting--"Hot House Of Omagarashid."
By the time the Yardbirds recorded ROGER THE ENGINEER in 1966, the British Invasion was in full swing. Like their brethren, they targeted Chicago blues as ground zero for musical inspiration. As a result, most Yardbirds recordings and live sets were chock full of numbers by the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry and Elmore James. ROGER was a departure for the band, as all the material was ...
| | Darker My Love Mondays In Spaceland, Vol. 1: 3 July 24th 2006 CD (2006)
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| | Iron Maidens CD (2005) +2 Bonus Tracks
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| | Edgar Torres Underground Network CD (2007)
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Edgar Torres has already had an album out in the club scene entitled “GIVE ‘EM LOVE” which made number 18 in USA Update. This track was on TOMA records and manufactured and distributed by NCP studios, NYC back in 1993. Info of this track can be found on http://www.discogs.com/artist/Edgar+Torres.Edgar has performed at Bronx Commmunity College, River Bank State Park, The Village Gate, Honey Suckles, Willis Lounge, Chaz Wilsons, and the world famous Cotton Club in Harlem. He’s been a featured guest on downshiftradio.com through D.J. Rodney BX onhttp://www.downshiftradiocom/ and on WHCR 90.3 FM Suzy Constantine talkshow Harlem Community Radio a global internet based radio station who ...
| | Sandinista! Project CDs (2007)
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Sandinista! was the most glorious folly of the Clash's career, an epic-scale three-LP set in which the band seemed determined to try a little bit of everything and offer it all for public perusal, whether it actually worked or not. That a significant majority of the album's experiments actually succeeded didn't quite compensate for the fact the ones that didn't hit the ground with a mighty thud, or that the sheer scale of the thing made it the rock equivalent of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, a marvel of obsessive ambition that was ultimately too big to fly. If you want to pay homage to the Clash, Sandinista! seems like a curious place to start, but rock writer Jimmy Guterman, who confesses a great sentimental attachment to the album, has compiled The Sandinista! Project, a tribute album in which thirty-five acts cover Sandinista!'s 36 songs in their original sequence (appropriately, Jon Langford and Sally Timms tackle both "Junco Partner" and its dub variant, "Version Partner"). The eclecticism that was Sandinista!'s calling card has carried over to the choice of performers who appear on this set, ranging from roots rockers like Willie Nile and Joe Grushecky, alt-country icons such as Jason Ringenberg and the Coal Porters and one-time left-of-the-dial stars Camper van Beethoven and the Smithereens to a jazz pianist (Jim Duffy, who handles the cover of Mose Allison's "Look Here"), a Clash tribute band (London Calling of Chicago, who offer a strong and not particularly derivative take on "Lightning Strikes"), and two folks who played on the original album (Mick Gallagher, who sits in with Soul Food for "Midnight Log," and Mikey Dread, adding a dubwise vocal to "Silicone on Sapphire" by the Blizzard of '78). In the spirit of the original recording, nearly everyone on board has gone ...
| | Tangent Going Off On One CDs (2007) Bonus Track
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| | Hooks Irish Punk Rock Anthems CD (2009)
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