Ry Cooders First Live Record In Over 35 Years!
Recorded on August 31st and September 1st 2011 during a special two-night engagement at San Franciscos Great American Music Hall, the album includes 12 songs and was produced by Cooder. The Corridos Famosos band includes Joachim Cooder on drums; Robert Francis on bass; vocalists Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, and Juliette Commagere; Flaco Jimenez on accordion; and the ten-piece Mexican brass band La Banda Juvenil.
Live in San Francisco includes original songs and interpretations of other material ranging across Cooders entire career, from classics like Boomers Story and Dark End of the Street to more recent originals such as Lord Tell Me Why and El Corrido de Jesse James, with a detour for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs Wooly Bully and Lead Bellys Goodnight Irene." Cooders only previous live album was the 1977 release Show Time, on which Evans and Jimenez were also featured. Show Time was also recorded at San Franciscos Great American Music Hall.
Features
160 Gram Vinyl
Double LP
Includes CD of Entire Album
Musicians:
Ry Cooder
Juliette Commagere
Joachim Cooder
Terry Evans
Robert Francis
Flaco Jimenez
Arnold McCuller
La Banda Juvenil
Selections:
1. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
2. Why Don't You Try Me
3. Boomer's Story
4. Lord Tell Me Why
5. Do Re Mi
6. School is Out
7. The Dark End of the Street
8. El Corrido de Jesse James
9. Wooly Bully
10. Volver Volver
11. Vigilante Man
12. Goodnight Irene
Recorded on August 31st and September 1st 2011 during a special two-night engagement at San Franciscos Great American Music Hall, the album includes 12 songs and was produced by Cooder. The Corridos Famosos band includes Joachim Cooder on drums; Robert Francis on bass; vocalists Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, and Juliette Commagere; Flaco Jimenez on accordion; and the ten-piece Mexican brass band La Banda Juvenil.
Live in San Francisco includes original songs and interpretations of other material ranging across Cooders entire career, from classics like Boomers Story and Dark End of the Street to more recent originals such as Lord Tell Me Why and El Corrido de Jesse James, with a detour for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs Wooly Bully and Lead Bellys Goodnight Irene." Cooders only previous live album was the 1977 release Show Time, on which Evans and Jimenez were also featured. Show Time was also recorded at San Franciscos Great American Music Hall.
Features
160 Gram Vinyl
Double LP
Includes CD of Entire Album
Musicians:
Ry Cooder
Juliette Commagere
Joachim Cooder
Terry Evans
Robert Francis
Flaco Jimenez
Arnold McCuller
La Banda Juvenil
Selections:
1. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
2. Why Don't You Try Me
3. Boomer's Story
4. Lord Tell Me Why
5. Do Re Mi
6. School is Out
7. The Dark End of the Street
8. El Corrido de Jesse James
9. Wooly Bully
10. Volver Volver
11. Vigilante Man
12. Goodnight Irene