Chicken Skin Music

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Chicken Skin Music
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released	1976
Genre	Blues rock, Country music, tejano music
Length	39:37
Label	Reprise
Producer	Ry Cooder
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (favorable) link
Ry Cooder chronology
Paradise and Lunch (1974) Chicken Skin Music (1976) Showtime (1977)

Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder's fifth album, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music).

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Charts 3.1 Album

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Bourgeois Blues" (Leadbelly) – 3:22
2. "I Got Mine" (Traditional) – 4:28
3. "Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai" (Traditional) – 6:01
4. "He'll Have to Go" (Joe Allison, Audrey Allison) – 5:07
5. "Smack Dab in the Middle" (Chuck Calhoun) – 3:18
6. "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:38
7. "Yellow Roses" (Ken Devine, Sam Nichols) – 6:11
8. "Chloe" (Gus Kahn, Neil Moret) – 3:00
9. "Goodnight Irene" (Leadbelly, John Lomax) – 4:32

[edit] Personnel

• George Bohannon – horn & baritone arrangement
• Oscar Brashear – cornet
• Red Callender – upright bass, tuba
• Ry Cooder – Bajo Sexto, mandola, bottleneck guitar, French accordion, electric guitar, slack-key guitar, tiple, Hawaiian guitar, vocals
• Chris Ethridge – bass
• Terry Evans – vocals
• Cliff Givens – vocals
• Hugo Gonzales – banjo
• Chet Himes – engineer
• Milt Holland – percussion, drums
• John Ingle – engineer
• Atta Isaacs – slack-key & acoustic guitar
• Fred Jackson, Jr. – tenor saxophone
• Flaco Jiménez – accordion
• Herman E. Johnson – vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Bobby King – vocals
• Henry Ojeda – bass
• Gabby Pahinui – steel guitar, vocals
• Benny Powell – trombone
• Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone
• Russ Titelman – banjo, bass, vocals, producer

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year	Chart	Peak
1976	Billboard Pop Albums	177