RY COODER - The Soundracks: The Border/Alamo Bay (2006)

The folks at Raven Records in Australia must have a blast assembling projects. This pairing of two 1980s Ry Cooder soundtracks is a case in point. The Border, composed and released in 1982, was the soundtrack to Tony Richardson's film The Border, and 1985's Alamo Bay was directed by Louis Malle. The interesting thing about these soundtracks is that they come immediately after Cooder's successful collaboration with Walter Hill on The Long Riders and Southern Comfort, and as the before-and-after bookends to his enigmatic score for Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. The score for The Border is perfectly balanced. Cooder's slide work is always touted, but also noteworthy is his ability to virtually disappear in the mix when collaborating with Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Fender, Jim Dickinson, Jim Keltner, and Sam "The Sham" Samudio. The haunting title track, "Across the Borderline," sung by Fender, is among the most beautiful and literate cuts Cooder has ever written. The cantina music by Jimenez and Samudio is utterly evocative. Check the tunes with Samudio on vocals, such as "Palomita" and "No Quiero," to get the laid-back, sun-up feel. Then there's John Hiatt. Hiatt was at the beginning of his association with Cooder. He helped to pen some of the better cuts on the set, including the aforementioned "Across the Borderline" and the bluesy garage rock jam "Skin Game." His high-whine vocals are perfect for the tension between cultures and reflect the conflict of Jack Nicholson's character as a principled U.S. border guard. Alamo Bay, Malle's picture that pits American shrimpers against refugee Vietnamese on the south coast of Texas, is another study in contrasts. Once more, Cooder assembles an all-star band that includes Hiatt, Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo, Lee Ving, Van Dyke Parks, David Lindley, Keltner, Chris Ethridge, David Mansfield, and Dickinson. The theme features Cooder's acoustic slide amidst strings (including Gayle Levant's harp), piano, and ambient sounds. The ethereal airy feel is swallowed whole by the raunchy electric roadhouse blues of "Gooks on Main Street," and dislocated once more on the country ballad "Too Close," performed by Hiatt with actress Amy Madigan, only to shift again with the sinister slide guitar and harmonica Eastern modal blues of "Klan Meeting," an instrumental. The score weaves and wends through barroom shouters, panoramic instrumentals, ballads, Tex Mex, and conjunto. Placing both recordings on a single disc is a rare and exotic treat, and gives great insight into the complex yet visionary artist Cooder is, and just how his music is the perfect accompaniment to visuals yet stands completely on its own. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
FROM THE BORDER
01. Earthquake
02. Across the Borderline
03. Maria
04. Texas Bop
05. Highway 23
06. Palomita
07. Rio Grande (Instrumental)
08. Too Late
09. No Quiero
10. Skin Game
11. Scorcho (Instrumental)
12. Building Fires
13. Nino
FROM ALAMO BAY
14. Theme from Alamo Bay
15. Gooks on Main Street
16. Too Close
17. Klan Meeting
18. Sailfish Evening
19. Last Sound (Alamo Bay)
20. Quatro Vicios
21. Search & Destroy
22. Glory
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Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
On My Name Is Buddy, Ry Cooder revisits, in a new.jpg)
set of original material, the sound and feeling of
the "dust bowl songs" he first explored more than
three decades ago on such groundbreaking albums as
his self-titled 1970 debut and 1971's In The Purple
Valley. In fact, he's joined by old friends like
pianist Van Dyke Parks and drummer Jim Keltner who
were with him at the start of his extraordinary,
ultimately globe-spanning musical odyssey, which has
yielded him six Grammy Awards to date, several more
nominations, and perennial acclaim. My Name Is Buddy
is also a journey, a phantasmagorical rendering in
music, words and pictures of the travels of three
unlikely cohorts - Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse and
Reverend Tom Toad - as they meander through the west
"in the days of labor, big bosses, farm failures,
strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos and
trains...the America of yesteryear." For this
allegorical tale, Cooder marshals all his remarkable
skills as a producer, arranger, songwriter,
soundtrack composer and musicologist. (The Christian
Science Monitor recently dubbed him "a modern-day
Alan Lomax.") My Name Is Buddy recalls Woody
Guthrie's Bound for Glory - that is, if it had been
enacted by the articulate animal characters of Walt
Kelly's classic comic Pogo. Cooder conjures up the
dark shadows of an earlier time to wryly comment on
the political and social issues of the present. As
back-story to his songs, Cooder has written short
stories for each one and they're accompanied by
evocative illustrations from noted San Antonio-based
painter and muralist Vincent Valdez, all of which
are included in a specially designed package.
ARTiST: Ry Cooder
TiTLE: My Name Is Buddy
LABEL: Nonesuch
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 70:51 min
SiZE: 81,8 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Feb-02-2007
RELEASE DATE: Mar-06-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Suitcase In My Hand 02:54
02. Cat And Mouse 05:03
03. Strike! 05:08
04. J. Edgar 02:38
05. Footprints In The Snow 03:07
06. Sundown Town 02:57
07. Green Dog 07:34
08. The Dying Truck Driver 04:56
09. Christmas In Southgate 03:28
10. Hank Williams 04:09
11. Red Cat Till I Die 03:08
12. Three Chords And The Truth 05:02
13. My Name Is Buddy 03:13
14. One Cat, One Vote, One Beer 04:16
15. Cardboard Avenue 04:34
16. Farm Girl 03:55
17. There's A Bright Side Somewhere 04:49
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Ry Cooder - Paris-Texas (1988)

1. Paris, Texas (from Original Soundtrack "Paris, Texas")
2. Brothers
3. Nothing Out There
4. Cancion Mixteca (from Original Soundtrack "Paris, Texas")
5. No Safety Zone
6. Houston In Two Seconds (from Original Soundtrack "Paris, Texas")
7. She's Leaving The Bank
8. On The Couch
9. I Knew These People
10. Dark Was The Night
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Ry Cooder - River Rescue: The Very Best Of

Tracklist -
01 River Come Down (PKA Bamboo)
02 UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto
03 Low-Commotion
04 Smack Dab in the Middle
05 Tattler
06 Dark End of the Street
07 The Very Thing that Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
08 Going Back to Okinawa
09 Money Honey
10 Why Don't You Try Me
11 Paris, Texas
12 Chloe
13 The PearlsTia Juana
14 I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine
15 Down In Hollywood
16 Which Came First
17 Crazy 'bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
18 Get Rhythm
19 Little Sister
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Ry Cooder - If Walls Could Sing

Tracks:
Police Dog Blues 3:53
F.D.R. In Trinidad 3:23
If Walls Could Talk 4:02
Tamp 'Em Up Solid 3:50
Ax Sweet Mama 4:13
Billy The Kid 6:14
Vigilante Man 5:06
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times... 6:37
Tattler 3:59
Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer 5:17
Alimony 4:07
Teardrops Will Fall 3:33
I'm A Pilgrim 2:56
Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin
Jim Dickinson - bass
Jim Keltner - percussion, drums
Milt Holland - percussion, drums
Bobby King - backing vocals
Gene Mumford - backing vocals
Cliff Givens - backing vocals
Ry Cooder - S/T (1970)
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Already a seasoned
music business veteran at the age of 22, Ry Cooder stepped out from
behind the shadows of the likes of Jackie DeShannon, Taj Mahal, the
Rolling Stones, and Captain Beefheart, signing his own deal with Warner
Brothers records in 1969. Released the following year, Cooder's
eponymous debut creates an intriguing fusion of blues, folk, rock &
roll, and pop, filtered through his own intricate, syncopated guitar;
Van Dyke Parks and Lenny Waronker's idiosyncratic production; and Parks
and Kirby Johnson's string arrangements. And while he's still finding
his feet as a singer, Cooder puts this unique blend across with a
combination of terrific songs, virtuosic playing, and quirky, yet
imaginative, arrangements. For material, Cooder, the son of folklorist
parents, unearths ten gems — spanning six decades dating back to the
1920s — by legends such as Woody Guthrie, Blind Blake, Sleepy John
Estes, and Leadbelly, as well as a current Randy Newman composition.
Still, as great as his outside choices are, it's the exuberant charm of
his own instrumental "Available Space" that nearly steals the show. Its
joyful interplay between Cooder's slide, Van Dyke Parks' music hall
piano, and the street-corner drumming creates a piece that is both
loose and sophisticated. If "Available Space" is the record's most
playful moment, its closer, "Dark Is the Night," is the converse, with
Cooder's stark, acoustic slide extracting every ounce of torment from
Blind Willie Johnson's mournful masterpiece. Some of the eccentric
arrangements may prove to be a bit much for both purists and pop
audiences alike, but still, Cooder's need to stretch, tempered with a
reverence for the past, helps to create a completely original work that
should reward adventurous listeners. ---by Brett Hartenbach
Tracklist:
1. Alimony (3:04)
2. France Chance (2:52)
3. One Meatball Singer (3:12)
4. Do Re Mi (2:57)
5. My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine & Dandelion Wine) (1:51)
6. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (2:50)
7. Available Space (2:11)
8. Pigmeat Leadbelly (3:12)
9. Police Dog Blues (3:36)
10. Goin' To Brownsville (3:24)
11. Dark Is The Night (2:43)
Ry Cooder 21 albums
Ry Cooder - Alamo Bay
1 Theme From Alamo Bay
2 Gooks On Main Street
3 Too Close
4 Sailfish Evening
5 Klan Meeting
6 The Last Stand (Alamo Bay)
7 Quatro Vicios
8 Search & Destroy – Glory
Ry Cooder - Blue City
01 - Blue City Down
02 - Elevation 13 Ft
03 - True Believers (Marianne)
04 - Nice Bike
05 - Greenhouse
06 - Billy And Annie
07 - Pops And Timer (Tell Me Something Slick)
08 - Blue City
09 - Dont Take Your Guns To Town
10 - A Leader Of Men
11 - Not Even Key West
Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
01 - Little Sister
02 - Go Home, Girl
03 - The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
04 - I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine
05 - Down in Hollywood
06 - Look at Granny Run Run
07 - Trouble, You Can't Fool Me
08 - Don't Mess Up a Good Thing
Ry Cooder – Borderline
01 - 634-5789
02 - Speedo
03 - Why Don't You Try Me
04 - Down In The Boondocks
05 - Johnny Porter
06 - The Way We Make A Broken Heart
07 - Crazy 'bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
08 - The Girls From Texas
09 - Borderline
10 - Never Make Your Move Too Soon
Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
01 - The Bourgeois Blues
02 - I Got Mine
03 - Always Lift Him Up , Kanaka Wai Wai
04 - He'll Have To Go
05 - Smack Dab In The Middle
06 - Stand By Me
07 - Yellow Roses
08 - Chloe
09 - Goodnight Irene
Ry Cooder - Crossroads
01. Crossroads
02. Down In Mississippi
03. Cotton Needs Pickin'
04. Viola Lee Blues
05. See You In Hell, Blind Boy
06. Nitty Gritty Mississippi
07. He Made A Woman Out Of Me
08. Feelin' Bad Blues
09. Somebody's Callin' My Name
10. Willie Brown Blues
11. Walkin' Away Blues
Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm
01 Get rhythm
02 Low-commotion
03 Going back to Okinawa
04 13 question method
05 Women will rule the world
06 All shook up
07 I can tell by the way you smell
08 Across the borderline
09 Lets have a ball
Ry Cooder - I, Flathead
01 Drive Like I Never Been Hurt
02 Waitin' For Some Girl
03 Johnny Cash
04 Can I Smoke In Here
05 Steel Guitar Heaven
06 Ridin' With The Blues
07 Pink-O-Boogie
08 Fernando Sez
09 Spayed Kooley
10 Filipino Dance Hall Girl
11 My Dwarf Is Getting Tired
12 Flathead One More Time
13 5000 Country Music Songs
14 Little Trona Girl
Ry Cooder - Johnny Handsome
01 - Main Theme
02 - I Can't Walk This Time
03 - Angola
04 - Clip Joint Rhumba
05 - Sad Story
06 - Fountain Walk
07 - Cajun Metal
08 - First Week at Work
09 - Greasy Oysters
10 - Smells Like Money
11 - Sunny's Tune
12 - I Like Your Eyes
13 - Adios Donna
14 - Cruising with Rafe
15 - How's My Face
16 - End Theme
Ry Cooder - Little Village
01 Solar Sex Panel
02 The Action
03 Inside Job
04 Big Love
05 Take Another Look
06 Do You Want My Job
07 Don't Go Away Mad
08 Fool Who Knows
09 She Runs Hot
10 Don't Think About Her When You're Trying To Drive
11 Don't Bug Me When I'm Working
Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
01 Suitcase in My Hand
02 Cat and Mouse
03 Strike!
04 J. Edgar
05 Footprints in the Snow
06 Sundown Town
07 Green Dog
08 The Dying Truck Driver
09 Christmas in Southgate
10 Hank Williams
11 Red Cat Till I Die
12 Three Chords and the Truth
13 My Name Is Buddy
14 One Cat, One Vote, One Beer
15 Cardboard Avenue
16 Farm Girl
17 There's a Bright Side Somewhere
Ry Cooder – Jazz
01 -Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now
02 - Face To Face That I Shall Meet Him
03 - The Pearls Tia Juana
04 - The Dream
05 - Happy Meeting In Glory
06 - In A Mist
07 - Flashes
08 - Davenport Blues
09 - Shine
10 - Nobody
11 - We Shall Be Happy
Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch
01 - Tamp 'Em Up Solid
02 - Tattler
03 - Married Man's A Fool
04 - Jesus On The Mainline
05 - It's All Over Now
06 - Medley; Fool For A Cigarette-Feelin' Good
07 - If Walls Could Talk
08 - Mexican Divorce
09 - Ditty Wah Ditty
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
01-Paris, Texas
02-Brothers
03-Nothing Out There
04-Ry Cooder, Harry Dean Stanton _ Canción Mixteca
05-No Safety Zone
06-Houston in Two Seconds
07-She's Leaving the Bank
08 - On The Couch
09-Ry Cooder, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski _ I Knew These People
10-Dark Was the Night
Ry Cooder - Pecos Bill
01 - Pecos Bill (Part I & II)
02 - Pecos Bill
03 - Prettiest Girl in the World
04 - Up and Up They Went
05 - A Cowboy's Prayer
Ry Cooder - River Rescue, The Very Best
Chloe
Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Dark End of the Street
Down in Hollywood
Get Rhythm - Larry Blackmon, Ry Cooder
Going Back to Okinawa
I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine
Little Sister
Low Commotion
Money Honey
Paris, Texas
PearlsTia Juana
River Come Down (Pka Bamboo)
Smack Dab in the Middle
Tattler
UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto
Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
Which Came First
Why Don't You Try Me
Ry Cooder - Ry Cooder
01 - Alimony
02 - France Chance
03 - One Meatball
04 - Do-Re-Mi
05 - My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and...
06 - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
07 - Available Space
08 - Pigmeat
09 - Police Dog Blues
10 - Goin' To Brownsville
11 - Dark Is The Night
Ry Cooder - Show Time
01 - School Is Out
02 - Alimony
03 - Jesus On The Mainline
04 - The Dark End Of The Street
05 - Viva Seguindo Re Mi
06 - Volver, Volver
07 - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such
08 - Smack Dab In The Middle
Ry Cooder - The Long Riders
01 - The Long Riders
02 - I'm A Good Old Rebel
03 - Seneca Square Dance
04 - Archie's Funeral (Hold To God's Unchanging Hand)
05 - I Always Knew That You Were The One
06 - Rally Round The Flag
07 - Wildwood Boys
08 - Better Things To Think About
09 - Jesse James
10 - Cole Younger Polka
11 - Escape From Northfield
12 - Leaving Missouri
13 - Jesse James
Ry Cooder - The Slide Area
01 - UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto
02 - I Need A Woman
03 - Gypsy Woman
04 - Blue Suede Shoes
05 - Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
06 - M Drinking Again
07 - WhIch Came First
08 - That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me
Ry Cooder - Trespass
01 - Video Drive-By
02 - Trespass (Main Title)
03 - East St. Louis
04 - Orgill Bros
05 - Goose And Lucky
06 - You Think It's On Now
07 - Solid Gold
08 - Heroin
09 - Totally Boxed In
10 - Give 'Em Cops
11 - Lucy In The Trunk
12 - We're Rich
13 - King Of The Street
14 - Party Lights
RY COODER - I, Flathead (2008)

If guitarist Ry Cooder's best albums are movie
scores, including the folk-culture clash of 1985's Alamo Bay and the
purple-prairie atmospheres of 1989's Paris, Texas. So it makes sense
that, offscreen, he writes music like a film director. I, Flathead
completes Cooder's trilogy of albums about endangered subcultural
California (following 2005's Chavez Ravine and 2007's My Name Is
Buddy), and a deluxe edition of this CD comes with a novella. You will
need it to fully grasp the concept — Cooder plays a fictional race-car
driver and struggling country singer, Kash Buk — but it is easy to
enjoy the songs as individual scenes, by turns sultry (the
mariachi-R&B opener "Drive Like I Never Been Hurt"), comic (the
Western-swing gag "Spayed Kooley") and romantic (the cantina-band
yearning of "Filipino Dance Hall Girl"). Cooder sings the album's best
number, "5,000 Country Music Songs," in character, as Buk, but in a way
closer to the 1972 gem "Boomer's Story" — like a guy making slow
headway in an indifferent world, to tart, poignant guitar-playing that
is a sweet, short movie in itself. - rollingstone.com
01. Drive Like I Never Been Hurt
02. Waitin' for Some Girl
03. Johnny Cash
04. Can I Smoke In Here?
05. Steel Guitar Heaven
06. Ridin' With the Blues
07. Pink-O-Boogie
08. Fernando Sez
09. Spayed Kooley
10. Filipino Dance Hall Girl
11. My Dwarf Is Getting Tired
12. Flathead One More Time
13. 5000 Country Music Songs
14. Li
ttle Trona Girl
Ry Cooder - Crossroads (Soundtrack) Flac
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1986 | Genre : Soundtrack | Time total: 00:37:45
01. Ry Cooder - Crossroads
02. Ry Cooder - Down In Mississippi
03. Ry Cooder - Cotton Needs Pickin'
04. Ry Cooder - Viola Lee Blues
05. Ry Cooder - See You In Hell, Blind Boy
06. Ry Cooder - Nitty Gritty Mississippi
07. Ry Cooder - He Made A Woman Out Of Me
08. Ry Cooder - Feelin' Bad Blues
09. Ry Cooder - Somebody's Callin' My Name
10. Ry Cooder - Willie Brown Blues
11. Ry Cooder - Walkin' Away Blues
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Ry Cooder - Music by Ry Cooder (1995)
Disc 1
Paris, Texas (1984, Paris Texas)
Theme from Southern Comfort(1981, Southern Comfort*)
Theme from Alamo Bay (1985, Alamo Bay)
Across the Borderline [Cooder/Hiatt/Dickinson](1982, The Border, vocal by Freddy Fender)
Highway 23 (The Border)
Bomber Bash (1984, Streets of Fire*)
Greenhouse (1986, Blue City)
Nice Bike (Blue City)
I Like Your Eyes (1989, Johnny Handsome)
Main Theme (Johnny Handsome)
See You in Hell, Blind Boy (1986, Crossroads)
Feelin' Bad Blues (Crossroads)
Swamp Walk (Southern Comfort*)
Angola (Johnny Handsome)
Viola Lee Blues [Lewis](Crossroads, vocal by Ry Cooder)
The Long Riders (1980, The Long Riders)
Archie's Funeral (Hold to God's Unchanging Hand) [traditional] (The Long Riders)
Jesse James [traditional](The Long Riders, vocal by Ry Cooder)
Total: 54:09
Disc 2
King of the Street [Cooder/Keltner/Zemeckis/Gale](1992, Trespass)
Sunny's Tune (Johnny Handsome)
No Quiero [Samudio](The Border, vocal by Sam Samudio)
Cruising With Rafe (Johnny Handsome)
Klan Meeting (Alamo Bay)
I Can't Walk This Time/The Prestige (Johnny Handsome)
East St. Louis (Trespass)
Goose and Lucky (Trespass)
Goyakla is Coming [Cooder/Hoortoo/Nakai](1993, Geronimo: An American Legend)
Canoes Upstream (Southern Comfort*)
Cancion Mixteca [Lopez Alvarez](Paris, Texas, vocal by Harry Dean Stanton)
Maria (The Border)
Bound for Canaan (Sieber & Davis) [Cooder/Clinton] (Geronimo: An American Legend)
Bound for Canaan (The 6th Cavalry) [Cooder/Clinton] (Geronimo: An American Legend)
Train to Florida [Hoortoo/Nakai/Benally] (Geronimo: An American Legend)
Houston In Two Seconds (Paris, Texas)
Total: 48:00
All tracks by Ry Cooder, except where noted. Anthology produced by Ry and Joachim Cooder.
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