Chicken Skin Music

Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music

Chicken Skin Music
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Artist: Ry Cooder
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. The Bourgeois Blues
  2. I Got Mine
  3. Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai
  4. He'll Have To Go
  5. Smack Dab In The Middle
  6. Stand By Me
  7. Yellow Roses
  8. Chloe
  9. Goodnight Irene

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Free Music Review: Cooder's best, and one of my favorite all time albums...
Hit: 5 Stars

This is one of my favorite albums from all time. I haven't thought about it for a while, but something recently clicked on how I really dug this work. I was in high school at the time, and I used to play the songs on an old boom box at work. One of the older gentlemen was amazed that a young person was listening to such old music (the album was made in 1976, but all the songs are quite old), and he asked why. I said "I just like it. That's enough".

It is Ry's best album, and it's really a collection of beautiful, timeless American folk songs. There really isn't a bad one in the whole batch. I really like the songs Always Life Him Up and He'll Have to Go. They are beautifully rendered. But the best ones have to be the opener and closer, The Bouregois Blues and Goodnight, Irene. The guitar work on The Bouregois Blues is some of Cooder's best, and he sings the song with great conviction. The closer is one of the most moving rendition of Goodnight, Irene that I've ever heard. It was originally a song by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, and it was popularized by The Weavers. Cooder's version is very simple, but it really makes the song a deep experience. The accordion (one of my favorite instruments) throughout the song really makes it for me. Such a beautiful, moving album.

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This 1976 effort contains some of Cooder's most compelling work and finds him reexploring some of the fundamental influences on a musician known for remarkable eclecticism. Most notable are "Always Lift Him Up," "Smack Dab in the Middle," and a beautiful adaptation of "Stand By Me" (which includes Flaco Jimenez on accordion.) The album opens and closes with covers of Leadbelly, namely "The Bourgeois Blues" and (you guessed it) "Goodnight Irene." Also notable is a fine reworking of the traditional number "I Got Mine." --Wayne Pernu
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.
Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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