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1970 studio album by Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
Studio album by Ry Cooder
ReleasedDecember 1970
Recorded1970
GenreRoots rock, blues, country blues, folk, Americana
Length33:28
LabelReprise
ProducerVan Dyke Parks, Lenny Waronker
Ry Cooder chronology
Ry Cooder
(1970) 		Into the Purple Valley
(1972)
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Christgau's Record GuideB

Ry Cooder is the debut album by roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released in 1970.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Alimony" (Brenda Lee Jones, Welton Young, Robert Higginbotham) - 2:55
  2. "France Chance" (Joe Callicott) - 2:45
  3. "One Meat Ball" (Louis C. Singer, Hy Zaret; arranged by Van Dyke Parks) - 2:27
  4. "Do Re Mi" (Woody Guthrie) - 3:03
  5. "My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine & Dandelion Wine)" (Randy Newman) - 1:45
  6. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (Alfred Reed) - 2:45

Side 2

  1. "Available Space" (instrumental) (Ry Cooder) - 2:11
  2. "Pigmeat" (Huddie Ledbetter) - 3:07
  3. "Police Dog Blues" (Arthur Blake; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 2:43
  4. "Goin' to Brownsville" (John Estes; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 3:24
  5. "Dark Is the Night" (instrumental) (Blind Willie Johnson; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 2:48

Personnel

  • Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin, bass guitar
  • Van Dyke Parks - piano
  • Chris Ethridge (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - bass guitar
  • Richie Hayward (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - drums
  • Roy Estrada (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - bass guitar
  • Milt Holland (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - drums, percussion
  • John Barbata (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - drums
  • Max Bennett (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - bass guitar
  • Bobby Bruce (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - violin
  • Gloria Jones & Co. - backing vocals
  • Kirby Johnson - orchestration and conductor on "One Meat Ball", "Do Re Mi", "Old Kentucky Home" and "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"

Production

  • Van Dyke Parks - producer, arrangement on "One Meat Ball"
  • Lenny Waronker - producer
  • Judy Betz - production assistant
  • Lee Herschberg - engineer, mix-down
  • Doug Botnick - engineer
  • Thaddeus James Lowe - engineer
  • Rudy Hill - engineer
  • Bob Kovach - engineer

Other credits

  • Airstream - for the 1937 trailer pictured on the front of the album sleeve
  • Frank Bez - for the photo of the Airstream trailer (photographed at dry lake El Mirage)
  • Susan Titelman - for the photo of Cooder on the back of the album sleeve
  • Ed Thrasher - for art direction
  • John Uomoto - for the title neon lettering

References

  1. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  • LP Sleeve Notes

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