In 1997, Ry Cooder worked with World Circuit, a record label based in London, to record some of Cuba’s great musicians. The idea was to capture their hits of the…
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Ken Shane
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The Staple Singers let go of the past on this 1975 classic
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Popdose Staff
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A little classical, a little jazz, a little Leonard Cohen…singer/songwriter John Common gives us his five Desert Island Discs.
Jeff Giles
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I love Ry Cooder’s music in almost all of its many guises, as you may already know, so I was thrilled to find this terrific in-studio set lurking in Wolfgang’s…
Bob Cashill
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1984 was a great year for foreign-language and independent cinema in the U.S. Off the top of my head I can recall seeing the following at Chicago’s Fine Arts Theater,…
Ken Shane
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Just a week or so after tackling Rhino’s massive Big Star release, Keep An Eye on the Sky, I’m back writing about another huge effort from Rhino, Where the Action…
Mojo Flucke
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Joachim Cooder produced his dad Ry’s new retrospective double disc The UFO Has Landed; he got to make the ultimate mixtape by picking which cuts would represent the elder Cooder’s…
Jeff Giles
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Ry Cooder – The UFO Has Landed (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) It’s a hundred degrees in the shade, easy, and you’ve been hiding from the worst of the heat…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When youÁ¢€â„¢re a young adult and trying to find your way in the world, it can be a very liberating period.Á‚ ItÁ¢€â„¢s a time when…
Ken Shane
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The final entry in Ry CooderÁ¢€â„¢s California trilogy, I, Flathead finds Cooder exploring the Southern California drag-racing culture that centered on the stateÁ¢€â„¢s salt flats. Much like the first entry…
Jeff Giles
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Gerald Albright, Sax for Stax (Peak) purchase this album (Amazon) He’s become known mainly for his smooth jazz sides, but Albright’s chops are too big for any single genre —…
Jeff Giles
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IÁ¢€â„¢ve been working up to a Ry Cooder IdiotÁ¢€â„¢s Guide for awhile now. HeÁ¢€â„¢s one of my longtime, all-time favorites, but heÁ¢€â„¢s released so many albums in so many different…
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