River Rescue: Very Best of [Import]

Ry Cooder | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Australia
• ASIN: B000026HDM
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,546 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. River Come Down (PKA Bamboo)

2. UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto

3. Low-Commotion

4. Smack Dab In The Middle

5. Tattler

6. Dark End Of The Street

7. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)

8. Going Back To Okinawa

9. Money Honey

10. Why Don't You Try Me

11. Paris, Texas

12. Chloe

13. The Pearls/Tia Juana

14. I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine

15. Down In Hollywood

16. Which Came First

17. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)

18. Get Rhythm

19. Little Sister

Editorial Reviews

Ry Cooder has many influences - from the early days as part of Taj Mahal's backing group (Ryland P Cooder, Rhythm Guitar) to the global success of Buena Vista Social Club. This collection pre-dates the latter and post-dates the former. This import only collection features 19 of his best tracks from his recordings on Warner from, 1972-1994. Includes 'Paris, Texas', 'Little Sister', 'The Pearls/ Tia Juana' and more! Warner. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Impossible task?, January 11, 2005

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R. J MOSS (Alice Springs, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: River Rescue: Very Best of (Audio CD)

I guess you acquire samplings like this to get some sort of overview. In most of the 'best ofs' I've heard & reviewed, despite the difficulty of reducing the choice of tracks from prolific artists, this has been achieved, even at the cost of 'rupturing' the contexts from which the tracks have been drawn. They manage to reweave an aesthetic tapestry. Not so with this, I feel. It's just too eclectic, a likely result of how varied the maps are that Cooder has covered. It isn't that this is a poor sampling. Just that I prefer so many of the complete originals; Boomer's Story, Paradise & Lunch, Purple Valley, and no compilation that pulls a single track from them can reflect their emotive hold.

1 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is great!, May 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: River Rescue: The Very Best Of Ry Cooder (Japan) (Audio CD)

You can listen to it over and over again!