Ry Cooder - Acoustic Performance Radio Ranch 12-12-1972 (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Ry Cooder
- Title: Acoustic Performance Radio Ranch 12-12-1972
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Echoes
- Genre: Blues, Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks, log, scans)
- Total Time: 00:57:48
- Total Size: 299 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Radio AnnouncementTalking
02. Police Dog Blues
03. TuningSong Intro
04. Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer
05. TuningSong Intro
06. Great Dream From Heaven
07. TuningSong Intro
08. Clean Up at Home
09. TuningSong Intro
10. Tattler
11. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
12. Radio AnnouncementSong Intro
13. F.D.R. in Trinidad
14. TuningSong Intro
15. Floating Bridge
16. Billy the Kid
17. Diddy Wah Diddy
18. Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)
19. Jesus is on the Mainline
20. Going to Boomsville
Ry Cooder needs little introduction. Since starting out in the '60s with the Rising Sons, Cooder has specialized in guitar sounds that harken back to primal bottleneck blues, country, jazz, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, Bahamian folk music, and countless other styles. He's combined various musical idioms into his own eclectic style as one of the world's foremost performers of roots music. Cooder's pioneering musicianship can never be overestimated, nor can its profound influence on many of his contemporaries. Echoes presents the entire WMMS-FM broadcast of Cooder's acoustic performance at Radio Branch in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 12, 1972. Digitally remastered with liner notes and photos.
Like Linda Ronstadt and later Emmylou Harris, Ry Cooder was a song collector. In fact, not just songs, but styles. On his first LP, Cooder revived an ancient anti-establishment hillbilly tune, How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? On his second, he reinterpreted a late nineteenth century populist broadside, The Farmer Feeds Us All. Fiddlin' John Carson and Pete Seeger had recorded it, as had several others, but it was probably written by Knowles Shaw, a mid-western singing evangelist best known for Bringing In The Sheaves. It appeared in a folio dated 1874, so it was at least that old, but an exhaustive biography of Shaw dating to 1879 fails to mention the song. Carl Sandburg's epic American Songbag and B.A. Botkin's Treasury of American Folklore featured it. The latter version was doctored up by Pete Seeger's father and came closest to the lyrics that Cooder employed. These days, when country music's political agenda is somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, it's worth remembering the music's populist, anti-capital roots.
Cooder's association with the Rolling Stones, Randy Newman, Captain Beefheart and others had made him into an underground legend. Those of us who analyzed and internalized LP credits knew that he had authored many of the slide guitar solos we treasured, not least the one preceding this track. Taxes On The Farmer came from his second album, 'Into The Purple Valley.' It seemed as if Cooder, more than anyone else, truly understood the American credo E Pluribus Unum. Let's flip through some of the songs on the LP: FDR In Trinidad (Attila the Hun, calypso), Denomination Blues (Washington Phillips, black gospel), Teardrops Will Fall (Dickey Doo & the Donts, white doo wop), Money Honey (Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters, black doo wop), On A Monday (Leadbelly, pre-blues), Great Dreams From Heaven (Joseph Spence, Bahamanian gospel), Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie, folk), etc. In this age of infinite availability, it's too easy to dismiss the intellectual curiosity and perseverance that led Cooder to this mix. The LP was recorded at Snuff Garrett's former studio, Amigo, and the cover art featured Cooder and his wife, Susie.
01. Radio AnnouncementTalking
02. Police Dog Blues
03. TuningSong Intro
04. Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer
05. TuningSong Intro
06. Great Dream From Heaven
07. TuningSong Intro
08. Clean Up at Home
09. TuningSong Intro
10. Tattler
11. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
12. Radio AnnouncementSong Intro
13. F.D.R. in Trinidad
14. TuningSong Intro
15. Floating Bridge
16. Billy the Kid
17. Diddy Wah Diddy
18. Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)
19. Jesus is on the Mainline
20. Going to Boomsville
Ry Cooder needs little introduction. Since starting out in the '60s with the Rising Sons, Cooder has specialized in guitar sounds that harken back to primal bottleneck blues, country, jazz, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, Bahamian folk music, and countless other styles. He's combined various musical idioms into his own eclectic style as one of the world's foremost performers of roots music. Cooder's pioneering musicianship can never be overestimated, nor can its profound influence on many of his contemporaries. Echoes presents the entire WMMS-FM broadcast of Cooder's acoustic performance at Radio Branch in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 12, 1972. Digitally remastered with liner notes and photos.
Like Linda Ronstadt and later Emmylou Harris, Ry Cooder was a song collector. In fact, not just songs, but styles. On his first LP, Cooder revived an ancient anti-establishment hillbilly tune, How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? On his second, he reinterpreted a late nineteenth century populist broadside, The Farmer Feeds Us All. Fiddlin' John Carson and Pete Seeger had recorded it, as had several others, but it was probably written by Knowles Shaw, a mid-western singing evangelist best known for Bringing In The Sheaves. It appeared in a folio dated 1874, so it was at least that old, but an exhaustive biography of Shaw dating to 1879 fails to mention the song. Carl Sandburg's epic American Songbag and B.A. Botkin's Treasury of American Folklore featured it. The latter version was doctored up by Pete Seeger's father and came closest to the lyrics that Cooder employed. These days, when country music's political agenda is somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, it's worth remembering the music's populist, anti-capital roots.
Cooder's association with the Rolling Stones, Randy Newman, Captain Beefheart and others had made him into an underground legend. Those of us who analyzed and internalized LP credits knew that he had authored many of the slide guitar solos we treasured, not least the one preceding this track. Taxes On The Farmer came from his second album, 'Into The Purple Valley.' It seemed as if Cooder, more than anyone else, truly understood the American credo E Pluribus Unum. Let's flip through some of the songs on the LP: FDR In Trinidad (Attila the Hun, calypso), Denomination Blues (Washington Phillips, black gospel), Teardrops Will Fall (Dickey Doo & the Donts, white doo wop), Money Honey (Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters, black doo wop), On A Monday (Leadbelly, pre-blues), Great Dreams From Heaven (Joseph Spence, Bahamanian gospel), Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie, folk), etc. In this age of infinite availability, it's too easy to dismiss the intellectual curiosity and perseverance that led Cooder to this mix. The LP was recorded at Snuff Garrett's former studio, Amigo, and the cover art featured Cooder and his wife, Susie.
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