Show Time (Ry Cooder album) explained

Show Time
Type:	live
Artist:	Ry Cooder
Cover:	File:Show Time (Ry Cooder album).png
Caption:	Cover of the original US pressing, 1977^[1]
Released:	January 1977
Recorded:	14–15 December 1976
Venue:	The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California
Genre:	Americana, roots rock, blues, country, Tex-Mex
Length:	43:04
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Ry Cooder
Prev Title:	Chicken Skin Music
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Jazz
Next Year:	1978

Show Time is the sixth album and first live album by guitarist Ry Cooder, produced by Cooder and released on the Warner Bros. record label in January 1977.

Track listing

Side A

1. "School Is Out" (Frank Guida, Gary Anderson, Gene Barge, Joseph Royster) – 2:37
2. "Alimony" (Brenda Lee Jones, Robert Higginbotham, Welton Young) – 4:44
3. "Jesus on the Mainline" (Traditional; adapted by Ry Cooder) – 5:27
4. "The Dark End of the Street" (Chips Moman, Dan Penn) – 6:43

Side B

1. "Viva Seguin/Do Re Mi" (Santiago Jiménez, Woody Guthrie) – 5:24
2. "Volver, Volver" (Ray Maldonado) – 4:49
3. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (Blind Alfred Reed) – 6:40
4. "Smack Dab in the Middle" (Charles E. Calhoun) – 8:00

Personnel

Musicians

• Ry Cooder – electric guitar, vocals, arrangements
• Flaco Jiménez – accordion
• Bobby King – vocals
• Terry Evans – vocals
• Eldridge King – vocals
• Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone
• Jesse Ponce – bajo sexto
• Henry "Big Red" Ojeda – bass
• Isaac Garcia – drums^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ry Cooder - Show Time. Discogs. 7 February 2019.
2. Web site: Ry Cooder – Show Time . Discogs. 7 February 2019.
3. Show Time, (1977) Warner Bros. Records, Vinyl LP: BS 3059 – Liner Notes