Get Rhythm (Ry Cooder album)

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Get Rhythm
Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1987 (1987-11)
Studio Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Roots rock [1]
Length40:43
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology
The Slide Area
(1982)
Get Rhythm
(1987)
Chávez Ravine
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
New Musical Express 4/10 [3]
Robert Christgau B+ [4]

Get Rhythm is a studio album by Ry Cooder. [5] It was released in 1987. [6]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Get Rhythm" (Johnny Cash)
  2. "Low Commotion" (Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner)
  3. "Going Back to Okinawa" (Ry Cooder)
  4. "Thirteen Question Method" (Chuck Berry)
  5. "Women Will Rule the World" (Raymond Quevedo)
  6. "All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell)
  7. "I Can Tell by the Way You Smell" (Walter Davis)
  8. "Across the Borderline" (Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, John Hiatt)
  9. "Let's Have a Ball" (Allen Bunn)

Charts

YearChartPeak
1987Australian (Kent Music Report)29 [7]

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. "Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder". AllMusic.
  2. "Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  3. Barron, Jack (14 November 1987). "Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm". New Musical Express . p. 35.
  4. "Robert Christgau: CG: Ry Cooder". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. "Strung Along". August 12, 2008 via www.newyorker.com.
  6. "RY COODER CHARTS HIS OWN COURSE". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1987.
  7. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 73. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.