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 | My Name Is Buddy - Ry Cooder
Publisher: Nonesuch
Released on 05 March 2007
List Price: £17.99
Though this release carries the deceptive subtitle Another Record by Ry Cooder , the virtuosic guitarist and ethnomusicological adventurer has never released another album quite like this. And neither has anyone else. After brilliant side trips into the music of pre-Castro Cuba and pre-baseball Chavez Ravine, Cooder returns to the Depression-era and Dust Bowl ballads that marked his earliest solo releases of the 1970s. Yet most of this material is original, offering a populist parable of three fellow travelers: Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and the Reverend Tom Toad. The tradition of putting... Read More |
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