Ry Cooder (album)

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Ry Cooder
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1970
Recorded1970
Genre Roots rock, blues, country blues, folk, Americana
Length33:28
Label Reprise
Producer Van Dyke Parks, Lenny Waronker
Ry Cooder chronology
Ry Cooder
(1970)
Into the Purple Valley
(1972)
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Christgau's Record Guide B [1]

Ry Cooder is the debut studio album by roots rock musician Ry Cooder released in December 1970 by Reprise. The album is composed of six cover songs and six original songs or adaptations by Cooder.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Alimony" (Brenda Lee Jones, Welton Young, Robert Higginbotham) - 2:55
  2. "France Chance" (Joe Callicott) - 2:45
  3. "One Meat Ball" (Louis C. Singer, Hy Zaret; arranged by Van Dyke Parks) - 2:27
  4. "Do Re Mi" (Woody Guthrie) - 3:03
  5. "My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine & Dandelion Wine)" (Randy Newman) - 1:45
  6. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (Alfred Reed) - 2:45

Side 2

  1. "Available Space" (instrumental) (Ry Cooder) - 2:11
  2. "Pigmeat" (Huddie Ledbetter) - 3:07
  3. "Police Dog Blues" (Arthur Blake; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 2:43
  4. "Goin' to Brownsville" (John Estes; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 3:24
  5. "Dark Is the Night" (instrumental) (Blind Willie Johnson; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 2:48

Personnel

Production

Other credits

References

  1. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved February 23, 2019 via robertchristgau.com.

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