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Track Listings
| 1. The Bourgeois Blues |
| 2. I Got Mine |
| 3. Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai |
| 4. He'll Have To Go |
| 5. Smack Dab In The Middle |
| 6. Stand By Me |
| 7. Yellow Roses |
| 8. Chloe |
| 9. Goodnight Irene |
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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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This 1976 effort contains some of Cooder's most compelling work and finds him reexploring 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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Cooder's Vision of American Roots Music,
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This review is from: Chicken Skin Music (Audio CD)
Ry Cooder is one of my all-time favorite artists. [One of my first amazon.com reviews back in 1999 was for Cooder's classic PARADISE AND LUNCH.] And CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC is right there at the top of my list of favoirte Cooder albums. While he's spent the better part of the last two decades doing soundtrack work, this album displays his encylopedic knowledge of musical styles. He's also a gifted mulit-instrumentalist (bajo sexto, mandola, mandolin, even accordion, in addition to being a superb guitarist. Also, Cooder relies on a wealth of talented session musicians, including Jim Keltner, drums; Flaco Jimenez, accordion; and Chris Ethridge, bass.The album opens and closes with a couple classic Leadbelly songs, "The Bourgeois Blues" and "Good Night Irene." In between he covers gospel ("I Got Mine"), Tex-Mex ("He'll Have to Go," "Stand By Me"), Hawaiian ("Yellow Roses, "Chloe"--both actually recorded in Hawaii, with native musicians Gabby Pahinui and Atta Isaacs), and all of it filtered though Cooder's vision of what constitutes the roots of American music. In his liner notes, Cooder states, "For me, this album reaches a level of real understanding and mutuality in music." It is one of Cooder's most satisfying albums. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
5.0 out of 5 stars
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By "amundulv" (USW) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chicken Skin Music (Audio CD)
A very nice effort from one of the most respected guitar players around. I'd say this resembles hawaiian folk music with strong US blues/rock influences, allthough the voice and guitar-playing of Ry Cooder and his companions really takes it all to another level. There's nothing new, nothing exceptional to be found here - it's this record's spirit that really drives it forward.Oh, and just a comment to the previous reviewer; I think the cover art of this album fits the music quite nicely. It's a picture of a skeleton having a go with what seems to be a hawaiian woman - giving the record an edge while still justifying some of the more strange fusion stuff going on here. Just my 2 cents off course.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A child's intro to his parents' music,
By Far Lefkas (Balto.-WDC metro area) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chicken Skin Music (Audio CD)
I'd read a concert review of Ry Cooder in Rolling Stone; sounded fascinating, so I bought this Chicken Skin thing that'd just come out. Here I was tryin' t'stay hip with Dylan & Beatles solo mat.He'll Have to Go was such a tear-jerker, you wished he could've recorded it with Jim Reeves. Always Lift Him Up: later this would be called world music (as opposed, I'd reckon, to non-world music), but back then it was just a loving confluence of modern pop & creaking standards. This was basically a child's intro to my parents' music, although I think they thought Cooder was making fun of it, because of his off-kilter & animated singing. It was also my intro to jazz, really, & I never again looked to Dylan or Beatles for hip.
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