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Track List
01) UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto
02) I Need a Woman
03) Gypsy Woman
04) Blue Suede Shoes
05) Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
06) I'm Drinking Again
07) Which Came First
08) That's the Way Love Turned Out for Me
01) UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto
02) I Need a Woman
03) Gypsy Woman
04) Blue Suede Shoes
05) Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
06) I'm Drinking Again
07) Which Came First
08) That's the Way Love Turned Out for Me
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1982
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The Slide Area is the tenth studio album by Ry Cooder. It was released in 1982 and peaked at #105 on the Billboard album chart.
This CD opens with an outrageous and exceedingly funky "UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto," and which seems so out of place with the other material. Yes, it is a rhythm & blues, bordering at times on funk album, and rap is one direction R&B took, but.... Listen to the groove on "Which Came First," and try to keep your body from bobbing to the strong rhythm laid down by Jim Keltner, Tim Drummond, and the background vocalists. While we are on the subject of vocals, this is one of Ry Cooder's best efforts, and his backup vocalists are key here and deserve special recognition: Bobby King, John Hiatt, Willie Greene, and Herman Johnson for most of the CD. The two gems on this are the phenomenal treatments of both "Blue Suede Shoes" and Bob Dylan's "I Need a Woman." Two songs as different in the original forms as pigs and gerbils are converted to R&B hit status. Both contain some memorable slide guitar work, but isn't that what we expect from this master of the guitar family. The album is very good but those two songs make it a gem.
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The Slide Area is the tenth studio album by Ry Cooder. It was released in 1982 and peaked at #105 on the Billboard album chart.
This CD opens with an outrageous and exceedingly funky "UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto," and which seems so out of place with the other material. Yes, it is a rhythm & blues, bordering at times on funk album, and rap is one direction R&B took, but.... Listen to the groove on "Which Came First," and try to keep your body from bobbing to the strong rhythm laid down by Jim Keltner, Tim Drummond, and the background vocalists. While we are on the subject of vocals, this is one of Ry Cooder's best efforts, and his backup vocalists are key here and deserve special recognition: Bobby King, John Hiatt, Willie Greene, and Herman Johnson for most of the CD. The two gems on this are the phenomenal treatments of both "Blue Suede Shoes" and Bob Dylan's "I Need a Woman." Two songs as different in the original forms as pigs and gerbils are converted to R&B hit status. Both contain some memorable slide guitar work, but isn't that what we expect from this master of the guitar family. The album is very good but those two songs make it a gem.
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