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
Release Notes:
On My Name Is Buddy, Ry Cooder revisits, in a new
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.