
April 17 — EL CORRIDO DE JESSE JAMES, Ry Cooder (2011)
There’s no shortage of doorways into Ry Cooder’s music. My primary reference points are his one-off album Little Village in 1991 with John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner; his celebrated solo album Chavez Ravine, which tells the story of Mexican-Americans who were displaced by the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles in the 1950s; and his role as producer and ringleader of the Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of previously unknown Cuban musicians, whom Cooder assembled on a […]