Chicken Skin Music
| Chicken Skin Music | ||||
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| Studio album by Ry Cooder | ||||
| Released | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Americana, roots rock, blues, country, Tex-Mex | |||
| Length | 39:37 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Ry Cooder | |||
| Ry Cooder chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Robert Christgau | (B) link |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) link |
Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder's fifth album, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music).
Track listing
Side One
- "The Bourgeois Blues" (Lead Belly) – 3:22
- "I Got Mine" (Traditional, based on Pink Anderson's version) – 4:28
- "Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai" (Blind Alfred Reed/Traditional) – 6:01
- "He'll Have to Go" (Joe Allison, Audrey Allison) – 5:07
Side Two
- "Smack Dab in the Middle" (Chuck Calhoun) – 3:18
- "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:38
- "Yellow Roses" (Ken Devine, Sam Nichols) – 6:11
- "Chlo-e" (Gus Kahn, Neil Moret) – 3:00
- "Goodnight Irene" (Lead Belly, John Lomax) – 4:32
Personnel
- George Bohanon – horn and baritone arrangement
- Oscar Brashear – cornet
- Red Callender – upright bass, tuba
- Ry Cooder – Bajo Sexto, mandola, bottleneck guitar, French accordion, electric guitar, slack-key guitar, tiple, Hawaiian guitar, vocals
- Chris Ethridge – bass
- Terry Evans – vocals
- Cliff Givens – vocals
- Laurence Fishburne - vocals
- Hugo Gonzales – banjo
- Milt Holland – percussion, drums
- Atta Isaacs – slack-key and acoustic guitar
- Fred Jackson, Jr. – tenor saxophone
- Flaco Jiménez – accordion
- Herman E. Johnson – vocals
- Jim Keltner – drums
- Bobby King – vocals
- Henry Ojeda – bass
- Gabby Pahinui – steel guitar, vocals
- Benny Powell – trombone
- Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone
- Russ Titelman – banjo, bass, vocals, producer
- Judy Maizel, Trudy Portch - production coordination
- Lee Herschberg - engineer, mixing
- Bobby Hata, John Neal - assistant engineers
Releases
- CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1988
- Cassette Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
- CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
- CD Chicken Skin Music WEA 2007
- CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 2008
Charts
Album
| Year | Chart | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Billboard Pop Albums | 177 |
References
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