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urizen · July 8th, 2008, 04:15 AM

... it's entitled "I, Flathead" and I think it is just the sort of thing some/a lot of y'all might really get a kick out of. It is a killer; tasty, funny, intriguing, unpredictable, warm and moving---to me, MUCH more enjoyable/musically and emotionally engaging (IMHOYMMVSTFUBFFOMG) than "My Name Is Buddy", and more consistent (though still curve-ballish/oddballish) than "Chavez Ravine". The "main character" is in the persona of a CalOkie gearhead (flathead racer), and it's another of Ry's meditations on place and time (mostly SoCal, from here and late '50s to eternity).

The name checking in "Steel Guitar Heaven" would probably amuse more than a few of you (as will the joke about Paul Bigsby's newest steel that does everything up to "...it pours ya a smoke and lights ya a drink?... Paul, think it needs a little more work!").

I think (hope) some of us are going to want to talk about it once more of us have heard (and started to digest) it. I posted this over in another forum too, and already got some reaction and talking going on.

eddiewagner · July 8th, 2008, 04:52 AM

it´s a fantastic album. the guitarsounds are breathtaking and the slideguitar is razorsharp and played really economical. and his singing is good too.

urizen · July 8th, 2008, 06:09 PM

Whillikers, no Coodies (maybe I should say, Cooderphiles) in the house? I'm nonplussed!*

*(well, there's me and eddiewagner, but still...we're talkin' an American musical hero here).

woodman · July 8th, 2008, 07:25 PM

i can't wait to hear it. he never fails to push the envelope.

RomanS · July 8th, 2008, 10:09 PM

Still waitin for my Amazon package with that CD...

SINCASTER · July 8th, 2008, 10:25 PM

He's a player than never makes me regret I'm a compulsive cd catalogue completeist.

mojocasterman · July 8th, 2008, 10:27 PM

Dang, look slike I need to buy me a new CD. Thanks for the heads up!

octatonic · September 5th, 2008, 07:30 AM

Have been listening to this today - amazing album.

Was going to post a new thread, but did a search, found this so thread bump.

Anyone got any links regarding the recording process for this album?

tuuur · September 5th, 2008, 08:10 AM

Listened to it in the iTunes store, and though it sounds nice, not something I would buy or play a lot.

Sargeslide · September 5th, 2008, 09:01 AM

I have it, it rocks, Cooder has revisited his70's and 80's style and updated it. I am a Cooderaholic, I learned to play slide to his records. I was dissapointed with "Buddy", little slide, little excitment. I am glad he did this disc!

Sargeslide

mickeydean · September 5th, 2008, 10:27 AM

just ordered it

jas468 · September 5th, 2008, 01:45 PM

I got it a couple weeks ago and am loving the material & his playing of course. I need to get the other 2 of this trilogy now to get "the whole story'.

His interests in this time frame coincide with my own, as a kid living on the east coast my imagination evoked just the kind of So Cal imagery he goes after on "I, Flathead".

Anyone get the deluxe version with the mini-novel? I'd be curious to hear how that is.

sultan59 · September 6th, 2008, 01:45 PM

3 or 4 songs on there that I like a whole lot. Drive Like I Never Been Hurt is one of the coolest songs ever, I like that rant at the end, and then there's the song 'Johnny Cash'!

MickM · September 6th, 2008, 02:10 PM

[quote=jas468

Anyone get the deluxe version with the mini-novel? I'd be curious to hear how that is.[/QUOTE]

I got it unknowingly when I pre-ordered it from Amazon. If you like Ry you'll like the book. Off the wall but in a cool, sort of follows the record, kind of way. I knew of the prior two records in the trilogy but haven't heard them.

Definitely not a "guitar" record but more like a bunch of related stories/characters with Ry providing his brand of "background music" to them.

Iain · September 6th, 2008, 02:30 PM

I really like this album. It's good to have Ry singing again, these days. Nicely simple, uncluttered arrangements and playing. Oh, and he book's entertainingly loopy!

Has anyone noticed he's playing in a trio - with Saint Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner - as "Guitar-Bass-Drums", in San Fran? Wish I could see that: I'd love to be at a gig again where Ry was standing up, singing and playing electric guitar. doubt very much there'll be a tour, sadly...

jas468 · September 6th, 2008, 07:17 PM

Thanks Mick, appreciate it.

Something about 'Fernando Sez' makes me want to crank it up when playing it in my car

Reno Sepulveda · February 22nd, 2009, 09:08 AM

This album needs to be listened to while driving. If you happen to be in Southern California and over 50 years old, it gets even more intense. And if you can make it through the whole thing without smiling and shedding a tear or two...well...you're no kind of friend of mine.

July 8th, 2008, 04:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
urizen Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SoCal Posts: 426	Ry Cooder has a new CD out and... ... it's entitled "I, Flathead" and I think it is just the sort of thing some/a lot of y'all might really get a kick out of. It is a killer; tasty, funny, intriguing, unpredictable, warm and moving---to me, MUCH more enjoyable/musically and emotionally engaging (IMHOYMMVSTFUBFFOMG) than "My Name Is Buddy", and more consistent (though still curve-ballish/oddballish) than "Chavez Ravine". The "main character" is in the persona of a CalOkie gearhead (flathead racer), and it's another of Ry's meditations on place and time (mostly SoCal, from here and late '50s to eternity). The name checking in "Steel Guitar Heaven" would probably amuse more than a few of you (as will the joke about Paul Bigsby's newest steel that does everything up to "...it pours ya a smoke and lights ya a drink?... Paul, think it needs a little more work!"). I think (hope) some of us are going to want to talk about it once more of us have heard (and started to digest) it. I posted this over in another forum too, and already got some reaction and talking going on.

July 8th, 2008, 04:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
eddiewagner Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: ROCK!linghausen/germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,096 27 Photos	it´s a fantastic album. the guitarsounds are breathtaking and the slideguitar is razorsharp and played really economical. and his singing is good too. __________________ My Drum/Guitar-Duo: www.myspace.com/captaintwangandhisrhythmcat

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woodman Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mint Hill, NC Age: 63 Posts: 8,124	i can't wait to hear it. he never fails to push the envelope. __________________ Truth is stranger than fact ... www.myspace.com/stragglerswing (Woody & the Stragglers - Western Swing/Roots-rock)

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RomanS Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Vienna, Austria Age: 37 Posts: 4,119 22 Photos	Still waitin for my Amazon package with that CD... __________________ http://www.myspace.com/romans212 http://www.myspace.com/theneatpickers http://www.thomassoulriverband.com/

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mojocasterman Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4,583	Dang, look slike I need to buy me a new CD. Thanks for the heads up! __________________ Scott Lentz T - Crook Custom T & S - Fano SP6 - Huber Dolphin Jr - SRV Strat - Ovation Elite T - Swart AST - Carr Mercury - Fender Tweed Blues Junior. Follow me on Twitter! @MojoCaster

July 8th, 2008, 06:09 PM	#3 (permalink)
urizen Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SoCal Posts: 426	Whillikers, no Coodies (maybe I should say, Cooderphiles) in the house? I'm nonplussed!* *(well, there's me and eddiewagner, but still...we're talkin' an American musical hero here).

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SINCASTER Tele-Meister Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 20 miles outta town and cold irons bound Posts: 473	He's a player than never makes me regret I'm a compulsive cd catalogue completeist.

September 5th, 2008, 07:30 AM	#8 (permalink)
octatonic Friend of Leo's Join Date: May 2007 Location: An Australian in London. Age: 37 Posts: 2,734	Have been listening to this today - amazing album. Was going to post a new thread, but did a search, found this so thread bump. Anyone got any links regarding the recording process for this album? __________________ "A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges." Benny Green

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tuuur Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: the Netherlands Age: 41 Posts: 1,832 7 Photos	Listened to it in the iTunes store, and though it sounds nice, not something I would buy or play a lot. __________________ http://www.myspace.com/tuuur

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Sargeslide Tele-Meister Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NIles, Michigan Age: 49 Posts: 296 3 Photos	I have it, it rocks, Cooder has revisited his70's and 80's style and updated it. I am a Cooderaholic, I learned to play slide to his records. I was dissapointed with "Buddy", little slide, little excitment. I am glad he did this disc! Sargeslide __________________ Never argue with an idiot! They will drag you down to thier level then beat you with experience

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mickeydean Tele-Afflicted Join Date: May 2008 Location: millersville Age: 55 Posts: 1,221	just ordered it __________________ I'm not getting older, I'm getting LOUDER. http://www.soundclick.com/mickeydean

September 5th, 2008, 01:45 PM	#12 (permalink)
jas468 Tele-Meister Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Temecula, CA Age: 64 Posts: 243	I got it a couple weeks ago and am loving the material & his playing of course. I need to get the other 2 of this trilogy now to get "the whole story'. His interests in this time frame coincide with my own, as a kid living on the east coast my imagination evoked just the kind of So Cal imagery he goes after on "I, Flathead". Anyone get the deluxe version with the mini-novel? I'd be curious to hear how that is.

September 6th, 2008, 01:45 PM	#13 (permalink)
sultan59 Tele-Holic Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Whidbey Island Age: 50 Posts: 514	3 or 4 songs on there that I like a whole lot. Drive Like I Never Been Hurt is one of the coolest songs ever, I like that rant at the end, and then there's the song 'Johnny Cash'!

September 6th, 2008, 02:10 PM	#14 (permalink)
MickM Tele-Holic Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Hbg. PA Age: 52 Posts: 839	[quote=jas468 Anyone get the deluxe version with the mini-novel? I'd be curious to hear how that is.[/QUOTE] I got it unknowingly when I pre-ordered it from Amazon. If you like Ry you'll like the book. Off the wall but in a cool, sort of follows the record, kind of way. I knew of the prior two records in the trilogy but haven't heard them. Definitely not a "guitar" record but more like a bunch of related stories/characters with Ry providing his brand of "background music" to them.

September 6th, 2008, 02:30 PM	#15 (permalink)
Iain Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 358	I really like this album. It's good to have Ry singing again, these days. Nicely simple, uncluttered arrangements and playing. Oh, and he book's entertainingly loopy! Has anyone noticed he's playing in a trio - with Saint Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner - as "Guitar-Bass-Drums", in San Fran? Wish I could see that: I'd love to be at a gig again where Ry was standing up, singing and playing electric guitar. doubt very much there'll be a tour, sadly...

September 6th, 2008, 07:17 PM	#16 (permalink)
jas468 Tele-Meister Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Temecula, CA Age: 64 Posts: 243	Thanks Mick, appreciate it. Something about 'Fernando Sez' makes me want to crank it up when playing it in my car

February 22nd, 2009, 09:08 AM	#17 (permalink)
Reno Sepulveda Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nowhere man Posts: 1,393	This album needs to be listened to while driving. If you happen to be in Southern California and over 50 years old, it gets even more intense. And if you can make it through the whole thing without smiling and shedding a tear or two...well...you're no kind of friend of mine. __________________ "I'm just kidding about that really."

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