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Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy

Styles: Contemporary Blues, New Acoustic, Political Folk, Progressive Folk
Released: 2007
Label: Nonesuch
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 162.3 MB
Time: 70:53
Art: full

1. Suitcase In My Hand - 2:54
2. Cat & Mouse - 5:02
3. Strike! - 5:08
4. J. Edgar - 2:37
5. Footprints In The Snow - 3:07
6. Sundown Town - 2:57
7. Green Dog - 7:33
8. The Dying Truck Driver - 4:56
9. Christmas In Southgate - 3:27
10. Hank Williams - 4:09
11. Red Cat Till I Die - 3:08
12. Three Chords And The Truth - 5:02
13. My Name Is Buddy - 3:12
14. One Cat, One Vote, One Beer - 4:16
15. Cardboard Avenue - 4:34
16. Farm Girl - 3:54
17. There's A Bright Side Somewhere - 4:49


Personnel:
Ry Cooder (vocals, guitar, bajo sexto, banjo, mandola, keyboards, bass); Buddy Red Cat (vocals, guitar); Roland White (vocals, mandolin); Julliette Cammagere, Bobby "Blanco" King, Bobby King , Juliette Commagere (vocals); Paddy Moloney (whistling, whistle, Uilleann pipe); Lefty Mouse (fiddle); Reverend Tom Toad (tambourine); Terry Evans (vocals); Mike Seeger (banjo, fiddle, harmonica); Pete Seeger (banjo); Flaco Jiménez (accordion); Jon Hassell (trumpet); Jacky Terrasson, Van Dyke Parks (piano); Joachim Cooder (keyboards, drums, percussion); Jim Keltner (drums)

Notes: With a concept that could have failed on so many levels in lesser hands, Ry Cooder stuns once again in MY NAME IS BUDDY and demonstrates why he is one of America's most adventurous musicians. His chosen material is a loose collection of animal character sketches--the titular Buddy is a cat--based on labor struggles and the lower class in Depression-era America. Think of it as Woody Guthrie meets Beatrix Potter.
While an odd construct on page for a man that jammed with Beefheart, the Stones, and the Buena Vista Social Club, MY NAME IS BUDDY flies with every track. The stellar cast of musicians includes the brothers Seeger, Van Dyke Parks, Jim Keltner, Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, and Flaco Jimenez, and grounds the fairy tale atmosphere with musical blood and guts. The ensembles tear through early-19th-century forms (country blues, bluegrass, and old-time arrangements) with a rollicking flair.

My Name Is Buddy



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Oznake: Ry Cooder, Contemporary Blues, New Acoustic, folk