Solo, collaborations, early career/late career...looking to pick up a few to get into.
Well, this one is def off the beaten path but i do love the soundtrack he did to the movie "The Long Riders"
"Bop Til You Drop" and "Borderline" are essential in my opinion ... had them since release and still listen regularly
I like his album "Jazz", from 1978.
Boomer's Story is worth checking out if only for his nice version of "Dark End of the Street."
Well, this one is def off the beaten path but i do love the soundtrack he did to the movie "The Long Riders"
There is also a two cd release "Music By" Ry Cooder which covers his soundtrack work from a number of movies. Looked at eBay there are a number of copies available there. I got mine at a library book sale event for 50 cents.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Get Rhythm
Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo (If you're into jazz)
Check this video out!! This I saw last year and kept playing it for days. It is real fine. Great band, great vocals from Ry and fantastic TONE from Ry's electric guitar. Oh yeah. Great slide/lead from Ry.
And this!
Thank you for the replies!
What brought this up with downloading a 1990 Cooder-Lindley show. I was familiar with Lindley, but not really his time with or with Cooder himself. I really enjoy this show, so it got the ball rolling and you all have moved it on down the field for me.
Ry Cooder and David Lindley
Roskilde Festival Blue Stage, DK
1990-06-29Source: 2x SONY ECM-150 mics > SONY TC-D5M tape.
Transfer: Master tape -> SONY TC-D5M > Tascam DR-05 -> HD > Audacity 3.1.3 > FLACCompression details: Threshold: -20 dB / Noise floor: -35 dB / Compression rate: 1,5 to 1 / Attack time: 0.2 sec /
Release time: 1.0 sec / Compressed from signal at 0 Db.Repairs:
Track 05 at 1:21 (copy L to R; length 2,3 secs)
Track 05 at 1:45 (copy L to R; length 0,3 secs)79:50 min. 12 tracks. Tape flip after 59:13 (after track 09).
Transfer done 02-2022. A HONECKER RECORDING.
01. Bon Temps Rouler
02. Crazy ´Bout An Automobile
03. Jesus On The Mainline
04. Billy The Kid
05. Old Coot From Tennessee
06. It´s All Over Now
07. I´m A Hog For You Baby
08. Vigilante Man
09. Bourgeois Blues
10. Whole Lotta Shakin´ Goin´ On
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11. Wooly Bully
12. Oh DeathRy Cooder: lead vocals, guitars, slide guitar
David Lindley: lead vocals, all manner of stringed instruments, percussion
I watched this today on youtube:
I had always seen his named and various credits on songs and albums, but man he is and was into a lot of different stuff!
So I got Bop Til You Drop. I love "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (will make you poor)". Good album. By the second consecutive play I was into it pretty good.
Then I got the UFO Has Landed compiled by Ry's son. The booklet has a comment about each song from Ry which is neat and it's pretty well done overall, not a chronological which I like, just kind of jumps around with a great selection. I bought it because it has a couple of the songs noted here like Dark End of the Street and three songs off Get Rhythm along plus it has some of the movie soundtrack stuff which was recommended. I believe I will look to pick up a few more, the 2 CD release exclusively on movie soundtracks might be cool.
I wonder though Steve do the songs on Music By mix well together being they are taken from different movies with different underlying themes and stuff going on in those movies?
He's definitely good listening music. I pick up on a sound or vibe in several songs that remind me of Little Feat, which I like.
Kind of interesting for a guy like me reading about this for the first time (and listening now on youtube):
https://rollingstonesdata.com/2021/11/09/a-bit-of-history-jamming-with-edward/
From the wikipedia page:
The album was recorded at London's Olympic Studio on April 23, 1969, during the Let It Bleed sessions, and released on Rolling Stones Records in 1972.[3] It consists of a series of loose jams performed by band members while waiting for Keith Richards to return to the studio. The reason for Richards' absence is uncertain; though it is commonly believed that he walked out over Cooder being brought in as a support guitarist, producer Glyn Johns has attributed his absence to a phone call from his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg.[3] Although Jamming with Edward! reached No. 33 on the US charts in February 1972 during an 11-week stay,[4] it failed to make the UK listings.
"Edward" is a nickname for pianist Nicky Hopkins, originating from some earlier studio conversation between Hopkins and another Rolling Stone, Brian Jones.[3] Hopkins also contributed the cover art. In the original liner notes, Mick Jagger describes the album as "a nice piece of bullshit... which we cut one night in London, England while waiting for our guitar player to get out of bed. It was promptly forgotten (which may have been for the better) ... I hope you spend longer listening to this record than we did recording it." On the CD version there are additional notes written by Mark Paytress adding more context and describing the result as a "curio to top all curios, perhaps".[5]
Johns said of the album: "[It] was just a joke really, just a laugh. I recorded it and they played it, and then, I don't know how long later, we dug the tapes out, I mixed it and they stuck it out on album. It didn't really warrant releasing really, but it was okay, a bit of fun, and there's some good playing on it."[3]
According to Rolling Stone, the release was delayed several months due to the appearance of an expletive on the back cover art, which was partially covered with stars in the ultimate release.[6]
Funny, this Jamming With Edward material sounds exactly like late60s/early70s Stones material, just with Ry playing guitar instead.
From the New Yorker:
If you wonder what his sensibility sounds like when applied to rock ‘n’ roll—one version of it anyway—the most widely known example I can think of comes from the period when Cooder had been hired to augment the Rolling Stones during the recording of “Let It Bleed.” He was playing by himself in the studio, goofing around with some changes, when Mick Jagger danced over and said, How do you do that? You tune the E string down to D, place your fingers there, and pull them off quickly, that’s very good. Keith, perhaps you should see this. And before long, the Rolling Stones were collecting royalties for “Honky Tonk Women,” which sounds precisely like a Ry Cooder song and absolutely nothing like any other song ever produced by the Rolling Stones in more than forty years. According to Richards in his recent autobiography, Cooder showed him the open G tuning which became his mainstay and accounts for the full-bodied chordal declarations that characterize songs such as “Gimme Shelter,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Start Me Up,” and “Brown Sugar.” The most succinct way I can think of to describe the latticed style that Keith Richards says he has sought to achieve with Ron Wood is to say that for thirty-five years the Stones have been trying to do with four hands what Cooder can do with two.
Ry does the soundtrack for one of my all time favorite movies, 1981’s “Southern Comfort,” starring Keith Carradine & Powers Boothe. It has a bit of a “Deliverance” vibe to it, but without the banjos or Ned Beatty type situation.
I watched this today on youtube:
I had always seen his named and various credits on songs and albums, but man he is and was into a lot of different stuff!
So I got Bop Til You Drop. I love "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (will make you poor)". Good album. By the second consecutive play I was into it pretty good.
Then I got the UFO Has Landed compiled by Ry's son. The booklet has a comment about each song from Ry which is neat and it's pretty well done overall, not a chronological which I like, just kind of jumps around with a great selection. I bought it because it has a couple of the songs noted here like Dark End of the Street and three songs off Get Rhythm along plus it has some of the movie soundtrack stuff which was recommended. I believe I will look to pick up a few more, the 2 CD release exclusively on movie soundtracks might be cool.
I wonder though Steve do the songs on Music By mix well together being they are taken from different movies with different underlying themes and stuff going on in those movies?
He's definitely good listening music. I pick up on a sound or vibe in several songs that remind me of Little Feat, which I like.
Interesting observation, considering Cooder played on the 1st LF album
The "Music By" is virtually all instrumental, only a couple of songs with vocals. Coming from numerous soundtracks, it's kind of an acquired taste.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
@stormyrider If Cooder was head and shoulders above everyone else on slide guitar from the late 1960's and late 1990's...what happened in the late 1990's? Did he loose his chops?
I just heard of CBS News Radio that judging by Tweeter posts tonight's Superbowl halftime show was the best ever! Millions of people just loved it!! But I wasn't one of them. I didn't like it at all. What is wrong with me? Hip Hop (rap) music is to me like German Polka music. I've tried but I can't even hum to it.
Yo! I be DJ Mike on the mic! My mixin' and scratchin' be outta sight!
It must be my age. B. B. King admitted on Larry King he could get into rap either.
My kind of halftime show!!
Ry and an accordion player thumping some Fats!!
This time LOOPED!!
ACTUALLY this is some real fine slide guitar from one of the best!!
What kind of pickups does Ry have in that old Stratocaster?? Whatever they sound pretty good. Nice tone.
SHOOT!! This whole set is just as BAD A** AS IT GETS.
This will get your feet moving!!
That’s Buckwheat Zydeco with him there. He’s a bit of a legend. And awesome.
@cmgst34 Buckwheat is good! Sings the second song.
I've been reading stuff on Ry lately and several times he was called the best slide guitar player around but here we usually give that to Duane Derek, Jack and Warren.
Beauty or best is in the eye/ear of the beholder. I don't care if some say that about Ry Cooder. All great players. Joe Walsh is a good slide player. Lowell George etc etc. All great!
Oh. Click on the bottom where it says YouTube.
Here is good old Joe!! I saw Joe play this live but didn't remember he changed guitars during his voice box/tube part.
And Jack on slide with one note that lasts 5 minutes...it seems:)
Ry does the soundtrack for one of my all time favorite movies, 1981’s “Southern Comfort,” starring Keith Carradine & Powers Boothe. It has a bit of a “Deliverance” vibe to it, but without the banjos or Ned Beatty type situation.
...and one of my favorite film noir cult classics "Streets of Fire".
Little Village was a great band. It's too bad they only did one album. I guess they weren't too commercially successful.
As to great slide players, obviously there are a ton. I like Sonny Landreth. He has a totally unique sound.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
@lee Seen/heard this Lee? I use to play it several times a weeks a few years ago. Very refreshing and unique. He has his on thing going on for sure!
And nice slide, different slide, for brother Dickey!
And a Jack Pearson I found a few months ago playing blistering slide guitar with the Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon. This SMOKES!!!
