Ry Cooder
Get Rhythm
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AMG Review of Get Rhythm
Bob Gottlieb
All Music Guide"The Musician's Musician." "The Master of the Eclectic." There are probably a dozen more titles by which this "guitar player" is known. To even refer to him as a guitar player is probably a gross mislabeling of this musician. He defies any sort of categorization; this is his greatest strength and for some his weakness. The theme for these nine cuts is rhythm of all different ilk. I won't even give the parameters because he seems to have none. I wondered how many different instruments he played on this album (I thought I counted five different types of guitar); it only says guitar and vocal for his credits. Listen to his version of "All Shook Up," more bop and rhythm than Elvis could put into four of his songs. It seems musicians line up to play with him, and they feel he did them a favor by letting them play on his albums. He always gives them plenty of space to do what they do. This CD will make the dead start tapping their toes.
Funky Friday
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My contribution to the friday's funkdom is the Ry Cooder version of the Walter Davis song " I Can Tell By The Way You Smell"...well, you said FUNKY!
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Across The Borderline
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I really like Baudolino's postings of Hispanic music ... it is a genre I am woefully lacking in. And here we get spoon fed the best of it. Since I can't really add anything of the real organic Latin artists, here's a feeble post( but a terrific song) to the genre of the day..Across the Borderline from the 1987 release " Get Rhythm" was written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and Jim Dickinson. The last v
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Sunday Under Covers - All Shook Up
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Track:All Shook Up (with Larry Blackmon)
"All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts (pop, country and R&B), staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27. In the U.S., it is regarded as the top song of 1957. Otis Blackwell composed this song, with compositional additions by Elvis himself, who is also credited as lyricist. It was ranked #352 on Rolling...
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