Artist-Ry Cooder
Album-My Name Is Buddy
Release Date-Mar 6, 2007
Genre/Style-Contemporary Blues/Progressive Folk
Size-81M
Quality-160kbps
Official Site-http://www.nonesuch.com/mynameisbuddy/
Biography-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder
Youtube online videos-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_Nxm_nS6M
Rating come from the critics-
Observer Music Monthly rating-100(out of 100) read here
Los Angeles Times rating-88 read here
AMG rating-90 read here
The Guardian rating-80 read here
Rolling Stone rating-60 read here
Review-Reviewed by boston.com. Ry Cooder had his commercial moment in the sun when he produced the Buena Vista Social Club, which helped reinvigorate Cuban jazz on the world stage. But the ever-stubborn Cooder has gone back to the fringes lately. His 2005 solo album, "Chavez Ravine," was a noble, Latin-jazz attempt to remember the forgotten, mostly immigrant souls displaced when Dodgers Stadium was built there. And the new "My Name Is Buddy" (modestly subtitled "Another Record by Ry Cooder") is a strangely eccentric but musically sublime concept album about an imagined pussycat named Buddy who rambles through the land and becomes a symbol for workers' rights during the Dust Bowl era. Cooder relives that era musically, returning to Delta blues, country, and old-timey folk and bluegrass, along with some vintage Tex-Mex music (with longtime friend Flaco Jimenez on accordion) he has visited with previous albums. Buddy is deemed a "Red Cat," of course, and comes upon union meetings (the song "Strike!" follows a coal miner's strike) and a pig in "J. Edgar" (an allusion to FBI heavy J. Edgar Hoover), as well as the likes of Lefty the Mouse and Reverend Tom Toad. It's a bizarre travelogue, but the music is casually brilliant, spiced by Cooder's evocative acoustic guitar, the twin banjos of Pete and Mike Seeger, and the piano of Van Dyke Parks. The music can be enjoyed apart from the story, but either way, this is a must-have for true Cooder fans.
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