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Into the Purple Valley or up the Purple Aki?
Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Guest Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:42 pm
Nightjar wrote:I switched to this album because I feel that it's more varied BTW.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:42 pm
Proper protest music.
Whatever happened to the Americans?
Whatever happened to the Americans?
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:44 pm
Last track - Vigilante Man.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:44 pm
Gloomy coda to the album.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Guest Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:44 pm
Last one: Vigilante Man
Bruce Springsteen cover?
Bruce Springsteen cover?
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:45 pm
The song is about the hired thugs ("vigilantes") who would violently chase away migrants to California trying to escape the Dust Bowl, a man-made ecological catastrophe in the American Great Plains during the 1930s. One verse refers to the murder of Preacher (Jim) Casy, a central figure in John Steinbecks' 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:46 pm
Guest wrote:Last one: Vigilante Man
Bruce Springsteen cover?
Nazareth even did of a cover of it.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:49 pm
Ry Cooder does an infinitely better job of recording and celebrating Americana than that braggart and oaf Dick Van Dyke Van Dyke Parks.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:49 pm
It is over.
I'm sure he enjoyed making it but it was all too samey to hold my interest.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
I'm sure he enjoyed making it but it was all too samey to hold my interest.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:49 pm
I shall give it 2 stars.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:50 pm
Well, I love it.
ObvZ.
It's my cup of dusty, bitter chickory java.
ObvZ.
It's my cup of dusty, bitter chickory java.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:51 pm
Guest wrote::constipated:
It's always nice to see an '80s advertising executive on drums.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:52 pm
★★s from you both?
You pair of unutterably miserable wancers.
You pair of unutterably miserable wancers.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Guest Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:01 pm
Because it's an album of cover version. He's pleasant enough, but it's all done in the same perfectly pleasant polite style, just compare the magic of the Washington Philips to his cover. Or the Wonderfully creepy backing vocals on the Lead Belly original on a Monday.
In the same way why listen to Eric Clapton playing a Robert Johnson song when it's now as easy to listen to Robert Johnson doing it?
In the same way why listen to Eric Clapton playing a Robert Johnson song when it's now as easy to listen to Robert Johnson doing it?
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:11 pm
If you compare Ry Cooder with Claptout again I'll, I'll... I'll...
Ooh, I'll...
Get you!
And then, ooh... I'll
Ooh!
Ooh, I'll...
Get you!
And then, ooh... I'll
Ooh!
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