Instead, Cooder functions as a renegade historian on a no-particular-hurry ambling tour through rural America.
After the invitation from Cooder, Ferrer left his shoeshining job and returned to the stage.
Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder is a rock chameleon, hopscotching across genres and geographic locations.
She had recorded the series in Havana, interviewing musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club and Ry Cooder.
Cooder's use of animal characters allows his populist song cycle to frame his social commentary from an outsider's perspective.
Some songs, such as the Woody Guthrie-esque lament "Cardboard Avenue, " push the influences together to create a new style that's distinctively Cooder.
Cooder doesn't really need to sing all the time, because his slide guitar has the wondrous ability to say more than words can.
Arhoolie veterans are joined by such admiring, label-influenced roots-music stars as Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Peter Rowan on some 70 exuberant tracks.
Many contemporary listeners know Ry Cooder primarily as the producer and guitarist behind Buena Vista Social Club, the 1997 project that revived the careers of long-forgotten Cuban ballad singers.
So it comes as little surprise that, after explorations into pre-Castro Cuba with the brilliant Buena Vista Social Club and Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder has shifted his focus once again.
He also enlists banjo-playing brothers Pete and Mike Seeger and picks up inspired support from The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney, jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and his own son, drummer Joachim Cooder.
The American guitarist Ry Cooder brought together some of the island's aging local legends for the album, realizing that if no one else preserved the hidden musical gems, they might be lost forever.
Even within the confines of musically narrow genres, Cooder allows himself room to stretch, manipulating the song structures of 1930s American music: minstrel folk, country ballads, blues and even the lounge jazz of Chet Baker.
Bringing together a stable of musicians as good as any band Cooder has assembled, My Name Is Buddy finds him reuniting with accordion master Flaco Jimenez, as well as soul singers Terry Evans and Bobby King.
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