Paradise and Lunch
by Ry Cooder
- Type: Album
- Released: May 1974
- Label: Reprise
- Country: United States
- Length: 37:22
- Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Ry Cooder鈥檚 'Paradise and Lunch' serves as an essential exploration of early 20th-century American music traditions, masterfully blending blues, gospel, and Tex-Mex influences. The album showcases Cooder鈥檚 peerless slide guitar mastery and his unique ability to strip back and revitalize traditional material with a gentle, warm, and highly sophisticated sensibility.
Genres
Descriptors: Folk, melodic
Tracklist
- Tamp' Em up Solid (3:22)
- Tattler (4:19)
- Married Man's a Fool (3:14)
- Jesus on the Mainline (4:10)
- It's All over Now (4:53)
- Medley: Fool for a Cigarette / Feelin Good (4:28)
- If Walls Could Talk (3:15)
- Mexican Divorce (3:57)
- Ditty Wah Ditty (5:42)
Credits
- Ry Cooder - primary artist
- Plas Johnson - alto saxophone
- George Bohanon - arranged by [horns]
- Nick DeCaro - arranged by [strings]
- John Duke - bass
- Red Callender - bass
- Oscar Brashear - cornet
- Jim Keltner - drums