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Mainstream awareness of Cuban music has been raised in other ways as well. Buena Vista Social Club (Nonesuch), an album that features American guitarist Ry Cooder jamming with Cuban musicians, won a Grammy this year and sold 250,000 copies in the U.S.; on July 1, Cooder's outfit will play Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who defected from Cuba in 1990, has a new album out titled Hot House (N2K). Cuba is also going Hollywood. In August, Columbia Pictures will release Dance with Me, a salsa-spiced love story about a Cuban immigrant (played by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne...
...mechanics of conventional country music. Across the Borderline breaks similar ground, only the raw material it uses is not myth. Nelson's version of the title track is a characteristic redrafting: a song about illegal refugees widens into a memorable evocation of rootlessness, helplessness and drift. Written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and James Dickinson for a film sound track, Across the Borderline has become a contemporary classic, sung by, among others, Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. But no one has caught so well as Nelson the melancholy and desperation at the heart of the song, or conveyed it with such...
...important, so has the lost art of storytelling. Credit goes to a small Connecticut company called Rabbit Ears Productions, which for six years has been assembling a library of children's literature on video. Each story is illustrated by a top-flight artist, scored by a noted composer (Ry Cooder, Herbie Hancock) and narrated by a moonlighting Hollywood actor...
BOBBY KING AND TERRY EVANS: RHYTHM, BLUES, SOUL & GROOVES (Rounder). Give these guys top marks in all those categories. This is neotraditional music done the hard way: sublimely. Some superlative backup too from guitarist Ry Cooder and keyboard player Spooner Oldham...
...City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since. He acted with Grace Kelly in The Swan in 1955. A decade later he was lodged at Warner Bros. Records as a cultural curiosity and house genius, collaborating with such hothouse talents as Ry Cooder and Lowell George. In 1968 he turned out his first solo album, Song Cycle, a heavily layered and intricately rhymed portrait of Los Angeles that is like Thomas Pynchon on vinyl...