Ry Cooder My Name Is Buddy Rar
Marnie Monteverde
The Prodigal Son [Fantasy, 2018]
The coup on this gospel-based protest album is master archivist Cooder's overhaul of Blind Alfred Reed's all too jauntily self-righteous "You Must Unload," which skips the captious cigarette-smoking and card-party verses and writes in some jewel-encrusted high heels as it stretches what becomes a heartstruck the-rich-shall-not enter entreaty to five minutes. Going for class-conscious reverence at all costs, Cooder milks his version of the canon from the Pilgrim Travelers to Carter Stanley with a double dip of Blind Willie Johnson and adds three relevant originals: the reverent "Jesus and Woody," the worried, comic "Shrinking Man," and "Gentrification," which calls out two enemies of the people by name: Johnny Depp up front and a regiment of coffee-swilling Googlemen covering his rear. A-
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Albums under Ry Cooder's name once only sold in the hundreds. But these days -- through high profile soundtracks such as Paris, Texas, The Long Riders and Trespass, internationally acclaimed work with the Buena Vista Social Club, and superb albums with the likes of fellow guitarist Manuel Galban (Mambo Sinuendo) and the late Ali Farka Toure from Mali (Talking Timbuktu) -- Cooder has become something close to a household name.
Just last week I was saying to a friend that Mali was starting to feel like the new Jamaica. Consider the number of artists whose names are becoming familiar: the late Ali Farka Toure and now his... > Read more
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The leading guitarist from the Bollywood composer trio, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, is also a household name in the world of Blues. Aside from having established himself as a mainstream Bollywood composer, Ehsaan continues to play at Blues venues around the country.
With fans all over the globe, Blues is performed at major events with the most loved classic and original songs in the setlist. One can catch these performances at major Blues Festivals like Byron Bay Bluesfest, Mahindra Blues Festival, Ottawa Bluesfest, Waterfront Blues Festival, and Chicago Blues Festival to name a few.
At the end of the day, there\u2019s only one purely perfect pop song for me, and that\u2019s \u201CBa Ba Boom,\u201D a 1967 rocksteady track by The Jamaicans that\u2019s been name-checked by Warren Zevon, among others, and whose lyrics expound upon the indisputable fact that when it\u2019s ba-ba-boom time, you had best get off your ass and dance. The beat is loping and assured; a fast-picked guitar line tickles the verses forward while the off-beat chop of the rhythm guitar holds everything else in place. Noris Weir\u2019s lead vocal is unruffled, Olympian, and the backing harmonies support him the way only old friends do. Then the horns come in at the end, and they\u2019re just pitchy enough for the chords to feel warm and handmade, the kind of perfection that comes from embracing imperfection in all its beautiful shabbiness. The song\u2019s self-contained, about nothing more than itself \u2014 it just is. In Zen Buddhism, there\u2019s the parable of the cook who achieved enlightenment yet went on being a cook, and that\u2019s kind of what The Jamaicans achieve here. It\u2019s a three-minute tune recorded for Duke Reid\u2019s Treasure Isle label sometime in early 1967, and it\u2019s also a song that has never not existed. Wherever you are, it\u2019s Ba Ba Boom time.
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