March 10, 2020

Ry Cooder: My Name Is Buddy

Nonesuch 79961-2

CD, Album, Hardbound
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Latin, Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Country, Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Suitcase In My Hand (2:54)
02 Cat And Mouse (5:03)
03 Strike! (5:08)
04 J. Edgar (2:38)
05 Footprints In The Snow (3:07)
06 Sundown Town (2:57)
07 Green Dog (7:34)
08 The Dying Truck Driver (4:56)
09 Christmas In Southgate (3:28)
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 (3:13)
14 One Cat, One Vote, One Beer (4:16)
15 Cardboard Avenue (4:34)
16 Farm Girl (3:55)
17 There's A Bright Side Somewhere (4:49)
[Credits]
Ry Cooder (guitar/Keyboards/mandolin/bass/vocals) Mike Seeger (banjo/fiddle/harmonica/jew's Harp) Roland White (mandolin/vocals) Van Dyke Parks (piano) Pete Seeger (fiddle) Flaco Jiménez (accordion) Paddy Moloney (whistle/uilleann pipes) Lefty Mouse (fiddle) Buddy Red Cat (guitar/vocals) Jon Hassell (trumpet) René Camacho (bass) Mike Elizondo (bass) Joachim Cooder (drums/percussion/tambourine) Bobby King, Terry Evans & Juliette Commagere (vocals)
Producer: Ry Cooder & Aisha Ayers, Engineers: Sunny D. Levine, Martin Pradler & Don Smith
[Notes]
'My Name Is Buddy', record by Ry Cooder is the thirteenth studio album by Ry Cooder. It is the second social-political concept album by Ry Cooder. Cooder has described it as the second in a trilogy that began with Chávez Ravine and concluded with I, Flathead. The album is packaged in a small booklet that includes a brief story and drawing to accompany each song. Both the songs and the stories relate tales from the viewpoint of the characters, Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad. The liner notes ask listeners/readers to join them as they "Journey through time and space in days of labor, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos, and trains... the America of yesteryear." -- Wikipedia

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