Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:39
Size: 93.1 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric blues
Year: 1982
Art: Front
[3:15] 1. Get Rhythm
[3:08] 2. Low Commotion
[4:40] 3. Going Back To Okinawa
[3:38] 4. 13 Question Method
[5:48] 5. Women Will Rule The World
[3:29] 6. All Shook Up
[4:31] 7. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell
[6:16] 8. Across The Borderline
[5:49] 9. Let's Have A Ball
Ry Cooder was originally best known for his Delta blues & Dust Bowl balladry, later better known for his movie soundtracks & exploration of ethnic music from Cuba, Africa & India. This one is none of the above. It is the closest Ry came to straight-ahead blues-based rock & roll. There are a few resurrected obscurities to be sure, but this shows the side of Ry that is probably the closest to his years as a Rolling Stones sideman.
Fans of Ry's more acoustic offerings should like this as well, so long as they are open to his electric, louder side. It sounds little like Boomer's Story or other early works, but the songs & performances are up to the quality from his classic era. Basically, much of this CD is rent-party stompers. The covers of Get Rhythm and All Shook Up are a hoot. ~Strom1513
Fans of Ry's more acoustic offerings should like this as well, so long as they are open to his electric, louder side. It sounds little like Boomer's Story or other early works, but the songs & performances are up to the quality from his classic era. Basically, much of this CD is rent-party stompers. The covers of Get Rhythm and All Shook Up are a hoot. ~Strom1513
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:56
Size: 89.1 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric blues
Year: 1970/1982
Art: Front
[4:58] 1. UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto
[4:34] 2. I Need A Woman
[4:02] 3. Gypsy Woman
[5:18] 4. Blue Suede Shoes
[5:56] 5. Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
[4:34] 6. I'm Drinking Again
[3:44] 7. Which Came First
[5:46] 8. That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me
This CD opens with an outrageous and exceedingly funky "UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto," and which seems so out of place with the other material. Yes, it is a rhythm & blues, bordering at times on funk album, and rap is one direction R&B took, but.... Listen to the groove on "Which Came First," and try to keep your body from bobbing to the strong rhythm laid down by Jim Keltner, Tim Drummond, and the background vocalists. While we are on the subject of vocals, this is one of Ry Cooder's best efforts, and his backup vocalists are key here and deserve special recognition: Bobby King, John Hiatt, Willie Greene, and Herman Johnson for most of the CD. The two gems on this are the phenomenal treatments of both "Blue Suede Shoes" and Bob Dylan's "I Need a Woman." Two songs as different in the original forms as pigs and gerbils are converted to R&B hit status. Both contain some memorable slide guitar work, but isn't that what we expect from this master of the guitar family. The album is very good but those two songs make it a gem. ~Bob Gottlieb
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