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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As there is only one other review of this masterpiece I just had to lend a hand into leading other people into the music of good old Ryland. A magnificent guitar player and an o.k. singer, the two disciplines seem to gel with each other to produce music which at first seems too easy and lazy but once you get hooked you'll move on to the two later masterpieces "Into the Purple Valley" and the seminal "Boomer's Story". "Ry Cooder" his first commercial album is filled with Woody Guthrie style mid west folk and blues and finishes with three blues tracks, my favourite being Sleepy John Estes "Goin' to Brownsville". The other stand out tracks on the album are "How can a poor man stand such times and live", "Alimony" and "Do Re Mi" but really you will just have to buy the C.D. and get into the groove and listen to Ry's fingerwork and slide playing which at times is awesome. I liked this period of his music the best, as I am not into Texmex or his later Cuban styles, so if want to hear the early Ry at work with his excellent band of musicians, including Van Dyke Parks on piano, get this C.D. as your starting point. You will not be disappointed.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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You can trust me on this one - I have been listening to this record/CD since it first came out way back in 1970! It's a stayer - not something you have continuously on your player, but songs you come back to, time and again.
They're all covers, apart from his own excellent instrumental 'Available space' - but there's some real crackers here, with fantastic guitar playing and Cooder's trademark melancholy/wistfulness/whatever. Top numbers are really all of them, with the exception of 'One meat ball' - too much over the top dripping-with-pathos (or bathos). On Alimony you even get backing vocals by Gloria Jones & co, who also sang with Neil Young and Little Feat (and T Rex, of course). Chris Ethridge and Roy Estrada play bass on some numbers; Van Dyke Parks on piano.
I still like some of his later work, especially the one with Ali Farka Toure, but his first two albums - this one and 'Through the Purple Valley' - are still among my favourites, 40 years on!
They're all covers, apart from his own excellent instrumental 'Available space' - but there's some real crackers here, with fantastic guitar playing and Cooder's trademark melancholy/wistfulness/whatever. Top numbers are really all of them, with the exception of 'One meat ball' - too much over the top dripping-with-pathos (or bathos). On Alimony you even get backing vocals by Gloria Jones & co, who also sang with Neil Young and Little Feat (and T Rex, of course). Chris Ethridge and Roy Estrada play bass on some numbers; Van Dyke Parks on piano.
I still like some of his later work, especially the one with Ali Farka Toure, but his first two albums - this one and 'Through the Purple Valley' - are still among my favourites, 40 years on!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Anything Ry does is alright by me - he never disappoints. He must be a very special guitar player to play with Beefheart at 19.
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Short
At just over half-an-hour in length Ry Cooder's self-titled debut of 1970 - which looks to fuse blues, folk, pop and rock - is on the short side. Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. Bailey
Ry Cooder
Why did I not buy this album 41 years ago?! Bought later releases, but I should have started here and just worked forward.
Published 6 months ago by Chazley
Folk/Blues Album From Ry Cooder.
This 1970 album is mostly of short songs which don't really hit the spot for me, although I like How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live.
Love the front cover though!
Love the front cover though!
Published 18 months ago by J. Thompson
Missleading?
Excellent early Ry Cooder content. Last track is simply stunning with dynamics to die for. However be warned this is NOT SUPPLIED AS VINYL - its a CD and Amazon have not corrected... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2009 by Mr. P. Wilkinson
Brilliant!
This is a brilliant complilation by Ry Cooder and includes a superb version of Blind Willie Johnson's timeless classic, "Dark Is The Night." Sheer class!
Published on 30 Jun 2007 by Rob Dylan
Excellent cover versions of some great songs.
Worth buying just to hear what he does with the Woody Guthry song "do-re-mi".
Published on 12 Aug 2000 by Paul Hague
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