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by: Ry Cooder

: Chavez Ravine
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075597987720
Label: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nonesuch
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Studio: Nonesuch
Sales Rank: 2191
MPN: 79877



Disc 1:
  1. Poor Man's Shangri-La
  2. Onda Callejera
  3. Don't Call Me Red
  4. Corrido de Box Eo
  5. Muy Fifi
  6. Los Chucos Suaves
  7. Chinito Chinito
  8. 3 Cool Cats
  9. El U.F.O. Cayo
  10. It's Just Work For Me
  11. In My Town
  12. Ejercito Militar
  13. Barrio Viejo
  14. 3rd Base, Doger Stadium
  15. Soy Luz Y Sombra
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Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine is-a post-World War II-era American narrative of "cool cats," radios, UFO sightings, J.Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball.Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends creates an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside Chicano cummunity, which was bulldozed by developed in the interest of "progress."

Amazon.com:
Ry Cooder might have been tempted to bill this as the Chavez Ravine Social Club. After generating such popular and critical interest in Cuban music of decades past with the Buena Vista Social Club, Cooder applied a similar approach closer to home, extending his fascination with the Mexican-American culture that flourished in 1940s and '50s Los Angeles. The result is an CD that sounds like it's aspiring to be something far more ambitious: a DVD, a theatrical production, even a time machine. Cooder and a cast of seminal Chicano artists present a song cycle that conjures an era of UFOs, the Red Scare, and political machinations that leveled the Chavez Ravine barrio to lure the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles. In his celebration of a vibrant community that doesn't know it's on the verge of displacement, Cooder enlists Thee Midnighters vocalist Little Willie G. (whose songwriting collaboration with Los Lobos's David Hidalgo on "Onda Callejara" highlights the album). and Pachuco patriarchs Don Tosti and Lalo Guerrero, with the latter reviving his dancefloor favorite "Los Chucos Suaves." The accordion of Flaco Jimenez adds conjunto flavor to "Barrio Viejo." Throughout the album, Cooder plays a typically tasteful, understatedly virtuosic guitar, assumes a variety of vocal roles--including a cool Chet Baker homage in duet with pianist Jacky Terrason on "In My Town"--and provides the provocative social context. --Don McLeese

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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Greasy handoff...
That's CHA-vez. Just as he provided a venue for aging Cubans before they were gone and forgotten, Cooder, in 15 songs, shines a light on the unknown tale of how a dusty hillside Los Angeles Mexican neighborhood ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - chavez ravine in the south of France
I first heard this CD last summer (06) while I was on vacation visiting British friends in France. Ironically, I was reading a book about Robert Moses and the wrecking and paving of neighborhoods in New York City ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Where have I been?
Out of it in Japan, actually. I only learned about this excellent album while reading a review of Mr. Cooder's My Name is Buddy and I'm not even sure why I was reading that, never having been much of a fan. Mistake. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Ry Cooder is a musician's musician
This is an elegantly produced album the captures an LA sound that deserves the treatment given. Each cut grows on you with every play -- the mark of good music.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Ry Cooder
Although the first and second track were my favourite, it is a good album and Would recomend if you want a chill out music.

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