Get Rhythm (Ry Cooder album) explained

Get Rhythm
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ry Cooder
Cover:	Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm.jpg
Studio:	Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles
Genre:	Roots rock^[1]
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Ry Cooder
Prev Title:	The Slide Area
Prev Year:	1982
Next Title:	Chávez Ravine
Next Year:	2005

Get Rhythm is a studio album by Ry Cooder.^[2] It was released in 1987.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Get Rhythm" (Johnny Cash)
2. "Low Commotion" (Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner)
3. "Going Back to Okinawa" (Ry Cooder)
4. "Thirteen Question Method" (Chuck Berry)
5. "Women Will Rule the World" (Raymond Quevedo)
6. "All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell)
7. "I Can Tell by the Way You Smell" (Walter Davis)
8. "Across the Borderline" (Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, John Hiatt)
9. "Let's Have a Ball" (Allen Bunn)

Personnel

• Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals, arrangements
• Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
• Flaco Jiménez - accordion
• Steve Douglas - saxophone
• Jorge Calderón - bass guitar
• Buell Neidlinger - acoustic bass on 2, 6, 8
• Jim Keltner - drums
• Miguel Cruz - percussion
• Bobby King, Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, Willie Greene Jr. - backing vocals
• Larry Blackmon - backing vocals on "All Shook Up"
• Harry Dean Stanton - backing vocals on "Across the Borderline"

Technical

• Ed Cherney - recording
• Steven M. Martin - art direction
• Kalan Brunink - black velvet painting

Notes and References

1. Web site: Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder. AllMusic.
2. Web site: Strung Along. August 12, 2008. www.newyorker.com.
3. Web site: RY COODER CHARTS HIS OWN COURSE. October 28, 1987. Los Angeles Times.
4. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 73.