Chicken Skin Music

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Chicken Skin Music
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released 1976
Genre Americana, roots rock, blues, country, Tex-Mex
Length 39:37
Label Reprise
Producer Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology

Paradise and Lunch
(1974)
Chicken Skin Music
(1976)
Showtime
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic link
Robert Christgau (B) link
Rolling Stone (favorable) link
Piero Scaruffi (6.5/10)[1]

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

Track listing

  1. "The Bourgeois Blues" (Lead Belly) – 3:22
  2. "I Got Mine" (Traditional, based on Pink Anderson's version) – 4:28
  3. "Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai" (Blind Alfred Reed/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" (Lead Belly, John Lomax) – 4:32

Personnel

Releases

  • CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1988
  • Cassette Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
  • CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
  • CD Chicken Skin Music WEA 2007
  • CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 2008

Charts

Album

Year Chart Peak
1976 Billboard Pop Albums 177

References

  1. Scaruffi, Piero (1999). "Ry Cooder". pieroscaruffi.com. Retrieved August 18, 2013. 
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