Ry Cooder – Paradise and Lunch [Stereo] (Speakers Corner Edition)

Remastered all-analog (AAA) from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.

$41.99

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180-gram vinyl

Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original analog tape

Pressed at Pallas in Germany

A good 20 years have passed since a band with ancient musicians from Cuba — the Buena Vista Social Club — took the world by storm. Behind the project, in the wings yet right in the midst of this unheard-of music, was Ry Cooder, who regarded this encounter as the greatest musical event of his entire life. The bottleneck guitar hero had always been very interested in the music from the other Americas ever since the solo albums he made in his early years, in which he told the story of the American folk and blues in a multitude of styles.

The LP Paradise And Lunch is no exception and begins with gospel-like grooves that smell of native soil. The faint smell of a wooden church from pioneering days wafts out of the processional antiphonal song "Jesus On The Mainline" and a healthy 12-bar blues paints a picture of what silent witnesses could tell if they could ("If Walls Could Talk"). Cooder and his sidemen felt themselves perfectly at home when adventuring further afield and this is testified to in the laid-back calypso rhythm of "It's All Over Now" and the clip-clop of "Mexican Divorce."

This wonderful album is highly recommended for each and every number, but if you want a tip for a very special track, then just listen to the ragtime piano rolls in Bo Diddley's "Ditty Wah Ditty."

Recording: 1974 at the Warner Brothers Studios in North Hollywood and Burbank (USA), by Lee Herschberg
Production: Lenny Waronker & Russ Titelman

(Above description from AcousticSounds.com)

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