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Ry Cooder (album)

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Released
  
December 1970

Length
  
33:28

Recorded
  
1970

Label
  
Reprise

Genre
  
Roots rock, blues, country blues, folk, Americana

Producer
  
Van Dyke Parks, Lenny Waronker

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

Contents

Side 1

  1. "Alimony" (Brenda Jones, Welton Young, Robert Higginbotham) - 2:55
  2. "France Chance" (Joe Callicott) - 2:45
  3. "One Meat Ball" (Louis Singer, Hy Zaret) - 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" (Ry Cooder) - 2:11
  2. "Pigmeat" (Huddie Ledbetter) - 3:07
  3. "Police Dog Blues" (Arthur Blake) - 2:43
  4. "Goin' to Brownsville" (John Estes) - 2:43
  5. "Dark Is the Night" (Blind Willie Johnson) - 2:48

Musicians

  • Van Dyke Parks - Piano
  • Ry Cooder - Guitar, Mandolin, Bass
  • Chris Ethridge - contribution not specified in sleeve notes - Bass
  • Richie Hayward - contribution not specified in sleeve notes - Drums
  • Roy Estrada - contribution not specified in sleeve notes - Bass
  • 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
  • Bobby Bruce - contribution not specified in sleeve notes - Violin

    • Voices

  • Ry Cooder
  • Gloria Jones & Co.

    • Production

  • Van Dyke Parks - Producer; Arranger 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
  • Kirby Johnson - Conductor, Orchestrator

    • 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 Ry Cooder on the back of the album sleeve
  • Ed Thrasher - for art direction

    • References

    Ry Cooder (album) Wikipedia
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