Ry Cooder's playing landed him live and/or studio gigs with Captain Beefheart, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Randy Newman and the Rolling Stones. The hired gun work, "it just didn't mean a damn thing"* and in 1970 Ry released his first solo disc featuring covers of Woody Guthrie, Alfred Reed and Sleepy John Estes. Over the following nearly forty years Ry has continued to release critically accla...
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“Vigilante Man” by Ry Cooder.As always, don’t take the law in to your own hands, click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.Question: Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Tags: ry cooder, The best song in the world
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When I was in high school, every Saturday night we would be going out someplace, a bar, a party, somebody's camp, didn't matter, as long as we got out. Lots of times there was this little bar and they would have a band, everybody would be there, dancin, having a good time. This song reminds me of those times. Ry Cooder tellin a story about women and cars.
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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 sect...
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Personable, humorous, and unquestionably talented, this intimate performance by Cooder is a long lost gem in his long and well-celebrated career. He performs a wide spectrum of material that includes covers and originals from his then-current and previous Warner Brother's albums.Whether it's a Depression-era styled blues classic, such as "Police Dog Blues," or Little Miton's "If The Walls Could...
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I have no idea what to say about Ry Cooder that hasn't been said before. I think the man can play any stringed instrument you put into his hands. His career as a "hired gun" in rocknroll is legendary. He's sweetened the sound for a who's who of rock royalty & no names alike. His own releases...his canon....is a remarkable journey through American music, mining rich veins of the American ...
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As faithful readers of the MOG Gazette (hey, guys!) recently learned, I am once again brandishing a bass guitar and leaving a thin spray of spittle on defenseless microphones, in company with a similarly unpromising phalanx of past-their-prime would-be rockers. We don't have a name yet. I proposed The Locals, but that suggestion has been met so far with a very meaningful silence. I may have to...
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Ry Cooder is a national treasure. Beyond being a guitarist of formidable talents, he's become a modern curator of the sounds of Americana. All Americana, and whether he's playin' the deep blues or the dustbowl ballads or Hawaiian folk tunes, he does so in a loose, relaxed, homespun way.The song here is a good example of all that Ry does so well. Capturing the sound of the streetcorner reviva...
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| 1 Suitcase in My Hand |
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| 2 Cat and Mouse |
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| 3 Hank Williams |
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| 4 I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine |
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| 5 Go Home Girl |
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