Ry Cooder (album) explained

Ry Cooder
Type:studio
Artist:Ry Cooder
Cover:RyCooderEponymousAlbum.jpg
Released:December 1970
Recorded:1970
Genre:Roots rock, blues, country blues, folk, Americana
Length:33:28
Label:Reprise
Producer:Van Dyke Parks, Lenny Waronker
Next Title:Into the Purple Valley
Next Year:1972

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

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Alimony" (Brenda Lee Jones, Welton Young, Robert Higginbotham) - 2:55
  2. "France Chance" (Joe Callicott) - 2:45
  3. "One Meat Ball" (Louis C. Singer, Hy Zaret; arranged by Van Dyke Parks) - 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" (instrumental) (Ry Cooder) - 2:11
  2. "Pigmeat" (Huddie Ledbetter) - 3:07
  3. "Police Dog Blues" (Arthur Blake; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 2:43
  4. "Goin' to Brownsville" (John Estes; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 3:24
  5. "Dark Is the Night" (instrumental) (Blind Willie Johnson; adapted by Ry Cooder) - 2:48

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