AMG Review of Alamo Bay

Richie Unterberger
All Music Guide

One of Cooder's better film scores, though the picture itself vanished into obscurity. Five of the nine pieces are instrumental, and Cooder flavors his distinctly trembling blues guitar with shakuhachi and violin to create moody pieces evoking spare and desolate landscapes that owe as much to the tropics and the desert as the Delta. Also has some routine bar-band blues-rock songs, a country duet between John Hiatt and actress Amy Madigan, and cameo appearances by David Lindley, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, and Fear vocalist Lee Ving.