popular music: Ry Cooder

popular music: Ry Cooder

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Ry Cooder

Ali Farka Touré, Ry Cooder

Hannibal, 1994

Best of two worlds
I bought this CD because of Ry Cooder. I've loved his music since first hearing on the soundtrack for "Paris Texas." I'm also very much into indigenous and ethnic music and am happy to have discovered Ali Farka Toure in this CD. Sometimes slow, sensual, hypnotic, and ...

Buena Vista Social Club

Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrar, ...

Nonesuch, 1997

Buena Vista Social Club is an Experience in Cuban Music.
This critically acclaimed album is a favorite for many reasons. The Buena Vista Social Club was a popular club in Havana that held dances during the 1940s and 50s. This 14-song album not only features many of the veteran musicians who performed at that club during ...

I, Flathead Limited Deluxe Edition

Ry Cooder

Nonesuch, 2008

tom wolf of trona
if you don't know california in the '50's and '60's, don't read this book.. the music will be enough.. then read the book. through sheer persistence and love, cooder has become the grand historian for cali in the day.. every referrence rings true and resonates through ...

Paradise and Lunch

Ry Cooder

Reprise / Wea, 1990

Ry's best, with some immortal slide playing
The Diddy Wah Diddy with Hines is beyond fabulous; so much interplay and groove and touch and taste. My God it's good. To play with one of your heroes and push him to play his very best is something few can accomplish. The only weak spot here is Ry's original, ...

My Name Is Buddy

Ry Cooder

Nonesuch, 2007

into the purple valley redux
ry's best in along time. great story line wonderfull tunes. shows he's the master of modern american roots-folk.

The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed [2 CD]
Ry Cooder

Rhino, 2008

Visionary, Grammy-winning guitar legend, composer, and producer Ry Cooder's epic musical journey has explored the realms of rock, blues, country, folk, Hawaiian, Latin, Tuvan throat singing, jazz, and Tex-Mex-to name a few. On 'The UFO Has Landed', Rhino celebrates four decades of his eclectic output with a 2-CD 34 track collection of his work as ...

Streets Of Fire: A Rock & Roll Fable (1984 Film)

Ry Cooder, Jim Steinman, ...

MCA Records, 1990

Rock and Roll history that never was
The variety of genres spans the album and it works as a great road trip CD as well as suitable backdrop for the film. The sequence of songs does not follow the film, but the album is the better for it. Great Songs/songwriters are the key Tom Petty and Benmont Tench ...

Chavez Ravine

Ry Cooder

Nonesuch, 2005

Where have I been?
Out of it in Japan, actually. I only learned about this excellent album while reading a review of Mr. Cooder's My Name is Buddy and I'm not even sure why I was reading that, never having been much of a fan. Mistake. Every song on this album is a winner; the ...

I, Flathead

Ry Cooder

Nonesuch, 2008

Finally, an album surpassing his early work.
I love this album. I've been waiting years for Ry to equal Boomer's Story and Borderline and his early work (most of which I bought on casette 30 years or so ago and still have). I frequently listen to Buena Vista Social Club, but Ry's contribution on that was ...

Crossroads: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Ry Cooder

Warner Bros / Wea, 1990

I just wanted to correct a post I read earlier...
All of the best cuts from this movie are actually located on Steve Vai's CD entitled "The Elusive Light and Sound". It is a very excellent CD, and has over 40 tracks on it. Thats all, Thanks.

A Meeting by the River

Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt

Water Lily Acoustics, 1993

acknowledged masterpiece
I love the easy flow and ambience of the fine playing here. Never has Cooder sounded better to my ear than on this one. And Bhatt is magnificent. I've been listening to this session for over ten years and still have it close, ready-to-hand, in my truck console.

Ry Cooder

Ry Cooder

Reprise / Wea, 1995

Good
I'm not sure this is the best debut ever...I like "6 & 12 String Guitar" a lot more, and didn't Charlie Parker record "Koko" on his first studio date? But as for whether or not you should buy this album - yes, of course you should. I suggest that you buy as many Ry ...

Jazz

Ry Cooder

Warner Bros / Wea, 1990

CLASSIC!
I have owned this since 1978, first vinyl, then CD. It is one album I will never be without. I defy anyone to listen to "We Will Be Happy" without believing it, or to keep from dancing to "Happy Meeting in Glory", and I've already requested "Face to Face That I Shall ...

Chicken Skin Music

Ry Cooder

Reprise / Wea, 1990

Cooder's best, and one of my favorite all time albums...
This is one of my favorite albums from all time. I haven't thought about it for a while, but something recently clicked on how I really dug this work. I was in high school at the time, and I used to play the songs on an old boom box at work. One of the older ...

Mambo Sinuendo

Ry Cooder, Manuel Galban

Nonesuch, 2003

I am hopelessly addicted to this album
No "Manteca" here, but I am hopelessly addicted to this album anyway. If you listen to Cuban music you will probably hear a lot of versions of "Drume Negrita" (which I think is really "Dru me Negrita") but the heavy metal here is very hypnotic.