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This 1976 effort contains some of Cooder's most compelling work and finds him re-exploring some of the fundamental influences on a musician known for remarkable eclecticism. Most notable are "Always Lift Him Up", "Smack Dab in the Middle", and a beautiful adaptation of "Stand By Me" (which includes Flaco Jimenez on accordion.) The album opens and closes with covers of Leadbelly, namely "The Bourgeois Blues" and (you guessed it) "Goodnight Irene". Also notable is a fine reworking of the traditional number "I Got Mine". --Wayne Pernu
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RY COODER Chicken Skin Music (1988 German 9-track CD issue of the 1978 album - the 5th solo longplayer from the legendary guitarist picture sleeve)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By A. Macfarlane
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Ry Cooder is probably best know to contemporary music buyers as the manbehind the Buena Vista Social Club, which was an unexpected runaway hit afew years back. Well, I say unexpected, but not so if you've been payingattention to his output over the last 30 years. This CD is a simmilar ideato Buena Vista - get a bunch of less-well know but very talented musicians- and play through some old, and somtimes long forgotten tunes. To thisend he has included the fantastic Flaco Jimenez, plus two greats ofHawaiian music: Gabby Pahinui and Atta Isaacs.
The tunes on this album may be familiar to many: Leadbelly's "BourgeoisBlues" and "Goodnight Irene", plus the King/Leiber/Stoller classic "StandBy Me". There are some that will be less familiar, with "Always Lift HimUp" first recorded by the wonderful Blind Alfred Reed standing out. Thisis an accomplised, ecclectic and hugely enjoyable CD.
The tunes on this album may be familiar to many: Leadbelly's "BourgeoisBlues" and "Goodnight Irene", plus the King/Leiber/Stoller classic "StandBy Me". There are some that will be less familiar, with "Always Lift HimUp" first recorded by the wonderful Blind Alfred Reed standing out. Thisis an accomplised, ecclectic and hugely enjoyable CD.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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The rediscovery of a rich indigenous American musical history didn't begin with O Brother Where Art Thou, though it gave a timely boost to an undervalued genre. Somehow the blues and folk archives of Alan Lomax and Harry Smith, and music handed down through families over generations and kept alive, needed to be woven into a whole that was both true to a tradition and yet contemporary. Among the honourable few who attempted such a synthesis were the Band, Neil Young and Ry Cooder.
Ry Cooder toured his Chicken Skin Music band after making this album and if you saw it you probably will remember a Whistle Test concert for UK television in 1977. Ry Cooder had assembled an extraordinary orchestra, uniquely combining the Tex-Mex accordion mastery of Flaco Jiminez with the Hawaiian slack key guitar maestros Gabby Pahinui and Atta Isaacs to perform traditional minstrel and gospel songs, soul ballads, Leadbelly and Ray Charles covers and standards such as the wonderful He'll Have To Go, and Chloe.
The result is a skilful blend that is not dry or academic but designed for dance and entertainment
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Carole
Format:Audio CD
This is the most essential of a list of essential Ry Cooder albums. If you only ever buy one of his CDs, make it this one.
I wore the vinyl out and had to buy it again and then I had to buy the CD. Someone borrowed the CD, they moved and I never got it back so I had to buy it again.
The playing is immaculate, it is simply wonderful music. The Mexican influences are great and really bring an extra dimension. This is the culmination of everything RC did before and overshadows everything he has done since.
Buy this album.
I wore the vinyl out and had to buy it again and then I had to buy the CD. Someone borrowed the CD, they moved and I never got it back so I had to buy it again.
The playing is immaculate, it is simply wonderful music. The Mexican influences are great and really bring an extra dimension. This is the culmination of everything RC did before and overshadows everything he has done since.
Buy this album.
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Laid back album with nods to Mexico and Hawaii via usual US roots.
Interesting album. Everything is very well played and produced. Theres the folk blues of "Bourgois", "He'll have to go" sounding more like the Drifters than Jim Reeves , and all... Read more
Published 23 days ago by S. J. Blackwood
5.0 out of 5 stars
A majestic one-off
This is an intelligent, spicy, and frankly weird album - I've never heard anything remotely like it, but I found it instantly attractive when I first heard it (played to me late at... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jonners
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ry at his finest
This is a very fun CD made by a group of musicians who were clearly having a good time. Recorded in 1976, right before Ry's inspired Jazz, which would take him in another... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Dr Jazz
5.0 out of 5 stars
Flaco's got a squeeze box he wears on his chest...
Ry Cooder is a remarkable figure in post-war American music. In truth, only Taj Mahal really gets close to him in terms of exploring the borderlands of different musical styles. Read more
Published on 28 April 2011 by Og Oggilby
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Ry at his best
Ry Cooder at his best. A superb CD - one of my absolute favourites. 'He'll have to go' - better than the original. 'Yellow Roses' - a wonderful rendition. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2007 by L. Erskine
5.0 out of 5 stars
Class still shines 30 years on
I first heard this on tape in 1988 when it was already 14 or so years old. I loved it immediately and still love it today. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2005 by E. Windsor
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just Cooder magic.
I've been a Cooder fan for almost 20 years - I reckon this is the best. Totally different from anything I've hear before. Music is mesmeric. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2000
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