Ry Cooder - Cambridge Folk Festival UK Broadcast 1979 '2020

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Fool For A Cigarette
02. Crazy Bout An Automobile
03. Billy The Kid
04. Ax Sweet Mama
05. Hard Ridin Papa
06. Stranger In My House
07. Comin In On A Wing And A Prayer
08. Jesus On The Mainline
09. Tamp em Up Solid
10. Fool For A Cigarette
11. Crazy Bout An Automobile
12. Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All
13. Great Dream From Heaven (Instrumental)

STUNNING ALL ACOUSTIC BROADCAST FROM RY COODER AT CAMBRIDGE IN 1979 Bop Till You
Drop, Ry Cooders eighth album, was released in July 1979 and remains the first
digitally recorded major-label album in popular music, recorded as it was on a
digital 32-track machine built by 3M. The album consists almost entirely of
covers of earlier rhythm and blues and rock and roll classics, including Elvis
Presleys Little Sister and the 1965 Fontella Bass-Bobby McClure hit Dont Mess Up
a Good Thing , on which Cooder duetted with soul star Chaka Khan. Khan also
performed on the only original track on the album, Down in Hollywood . In the
same month as the record s release Ry performed at the annual Cambridge Folk
Festival, established in 1965, and held on the site of Cherry Hinton Hall in
Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the university city of Cambridge,
in England. The festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide
definition of what might be considered folk. It occurs over a long weekend in
July each year (save for 2020, for obvious reasons). In 1979, Ry Cooder joined
the line-up which also featured The Boys Of The Lough, Dave Cousins, Maddy Prior
and Loudon Wainwright III, among others. Cooder headlined on the Saturday Night
that time round, making him the festival s main attraction for the final year of
the seventies. Performing a solo-acoustic set made up of oldies from his
previous albums but, no doubt to the chagrin of Warner Brothers, not a single
cut from his new release, the entirety of both performances (set 1 and set 2 are
included) he gave that mystical Saturday more than 40 years ago, sounds as
extraordinary today as they no doubt did at the time.

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