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| Artist: Ry Cooder
Label: Warner
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 400
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 511762
UPC: 075597990058
EAN: 0075597990058
ASIN: B0018QCXBE
Release Date: June 23, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Drive Like I Never Been Hurt | | • | Waitin' For Some Girl | | • | Johnny Cash | | • | Can I Smoke In Here? | | • | Steel Guitar Heaven | | • | Ridin' With The Blues | | • | Pink-O Boogie | | • | Fernando Sez | | • | Spayed Kooley | | • | Filipino Dance Hall Girl | | • | My Dwarf Is Getting Tired | | • | Flathead One More Time | | • | 5000 Country Music Songs | | • | Little Trona Girl |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Worn Vista August 6, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm afraid I was sadly disappointed in the latest offering by Mr. Cooder. Perhaps being British, and not in possession of the novella which apparently explains what the album is all about may have something to do with my lack of enthusiasm. Mr. Cooder is not a singer, and someone in his entourage should tell him so. His voice has a very limited range, and his singing appears to be strained. We are given two talking "songs" out of 14 on the album, which is an indication that too much of the Cooder vocals is not a good thing. In Chavez Ravine, he found some fine songs,the best of them written by others, and some fine singers, and assembled a package which was a delight. But since he has decided to do all the composing and all the singing, on Buddy as on Flathead, the magic has,I'm afraid, disappeared. The Johnny Cash song sounds as if it was made up in a bar on a Saturday night -indeed it's almost disrespectful, whilst his obsession with J.Edgar Hoover resurfaces
unnecessarily. And why ration the wonderful accordion player to one song? Arranging new sound combinations, and finding good tales and ,crucially, characterful singers connected to those tales, are what Mr.C. does best,in my opinion.
 Keep em' coming Ry !!! June 27, 2008
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
These days, Ry Cooder is a musical novelist and I happen to believe that his format of album making is quietly revolutionary. Here is another great example of what a concept album should be like. Mysterious, Iconic, Intruiging and totally musical.
In an age where you select a few tracks of an album for a download, it's quite incredible that we have an artist who makes you realise what a lazy musical culture we live in.
It's time to wake up People !!! Music is still alive ...
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