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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Few words can describe this, so just watch:I finally saw this movie from 1984. *Wow, just wow*. What a classic & such gorgeous scenery & cinematography. Everything about this movie is stunning. The cast, the director Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard's script, the acting and of course the music.Ry Cooder did the soundtrack and if you watched the clip above you get a great idea of what the rest of the m...
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A new Anthology by one of the Masters - his kid chose the tracks, a really good mix of oldies and newer stuff.
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If you do not watch this video you are crazy and don't know what you missed out on!From the album Boomer's Story Performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test. i don't know what to say. i watched this for the first time today.Found on that youtube place. It's a song and a performance that pretty much doesn't require anything but awe and amazement at how good music can be.this is live.hope you don't ...
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Spike says re: my last post of Ry Cooder covering Chuck Berry's " Thirteen Question Method": The whole thing reminds me of a cut he had to have heard and absorbed, “Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer” by Joseph Spence [guitarist and mutterer] and the Pinder Family from the Bahamas from their Rounder album The Spring of Sixty-Five.I do believe you're right!
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Just thought this song was jermaine to the times....Wry wit, indeed!
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It's Friday, It's Funky...and if you need some help getting a date this weekend,you may want to heed the advice herein. It's Ry Cooder ( I post him at the drop of a hat,I know)covering Chuck Berry's " Thirteen Question Method" from the CD "Get Rythym".I think Ry's version is far funkier than Chuck's.....
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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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Here's a song off the latest Ry Cooder album, My Name Is Buddy. The song is called "Strike!"
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Check out this video over on YouTube!From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Band introduction. Nice Jim Keltner solo.Band:Ry Cooder: guitar, voxJim Keltner: drumsVan Dyke Parks: keysJorge Calderon: bassFlaco Jimenez: accordionMiguel Cruiz: percussionSteve Douglas: saxGeorge Bohannon: tromb...
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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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