Personnel includes: Ry Cooder (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, mandola, mandolin, fiddle, accordion, piano, bowed piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass, percussion); Harry Dean Stanton (vocals); Jim Dickinson (guitar, dulceola, piano, organ keyboards, harmonium); Tom Sauber (guitar, fiddle, banjo, jawsharp); David Mansfield (violin, cello); R. Carlos Nakai (flute); Flaco Jimenez (accordion); John "Juke" Logan (harmonica); John Hassell (trumpet); Loren Marsteller (euphonium); George Bohannon (trombone, baritone horn); Jim Keltner (bowed piano, drums, percussion); Van Dyke Parks, David Lindley, John Hiatt, Freddy Fender, Sam Samudio.
Compilation producers: Ry Cooder, Joachim Cooder.
Includes liner notes by Ry Cooder & Walter Hill.
MUSIC BY RY COODER is an anthology of Cooder's film music projects and includes some previously unreleased songs.
What the critics say...
Q (8/95, p.137) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...it's an intermittently interesting listen, best suited to the early morning..."
Melody Maker (8/5/95, p.35) - "...up there with Ennio Morricone. Cooder's work...is an erudite, articulate exploration of the music indigenous to the particular film's setting....genius by the bucketload..."
NME (Magazine) (7/15/95, p.49) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a marvellous, enquiring artist....There's masses of slide guitar and weird tunings; country blues gone futuristic and minimal. If you thought John Squire was a bit nifty on the bottleneck, then let Ry blow your tiny brain..."
