Ry Cooder
Album
‘Chavez Ravine’ rel 13.6.05
Ry Cooder’s Chávez Ravine - a post-World War II-era American narrative of “cool cats”, radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball - will be released by Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records on
June 13. The record is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Chávez Ravine. Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant
hillside Chicano community, which was bulldozed by developers in the 1950s in the interest of “progress”; Dodgers Stadium ultimately was built on the site. Cooder says, “Here is some music for a place you don’t know, up a
road you don’t go. Chávez Ravine, where the sidewalk ends.”
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