Product Description
Rhino presents a retrospective boxed set with seven CDs that focus on Cooder's work in the Eighties and early Nineties: The Long Riders, Alamo Bay, Paris, Texas, Blue City, Crossroads, Johnny Handsome and Trespass. RY COODER: SOUNDTRACKS will be available on September 30th. A digital version will also be available.

The music is presented in a clamshell box that features new artwork by Tornado Design, the group behind the distinctive look found on several of Cooder's recent studio albums, as well as Rhino's 2008 anthology, The UFO Has Landed.

After Cooder worked on soundtracks for Watermelon Man and Performance (starring Mick Jagger), he began producing soundtracks on his own. He started in 1980 with The Long Riders. It was the first of many soundtracks that Cooder would record for the film's director, Walter Hill. Many of them are included in this set: Crossroads, Johnny Handsome, Trespass, and Blue City, a film Hill produced.

Cooder enjoyed a prolific two-year period between 1985-86 when he reeled off more than half of the soundtracks in this collection, including Alamo Bay, Blue City, Crossroads, and Paris, Texas, the Wim Wenders film that won the prestigious Palme d'Or in 1984 at the Cannes Film Festival.

The soundtracks vary widely in terms of style, even as the group of musicians who performed on them remained remarkably consistent. In fact, some combination of drummer Jim Keltner, Memphis legend Jim Dickinson, guitarist David Lindley, and composer Van Dyke Parks can be heard on every soundtrack included in this set. In addition to those core musicians, the albums also boasts some fantastic guest performances by Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos on Alamo Bay, keyboardist Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers on Blue City, and harmonica player Sonny Terry on Crossroads.

[tracklisting]Disc: 1
1. The Long Riders
2. I'm A Good Old Rebel
3. Seneca Square Dance
4. Archie's Funeral [Hold To God's Unchanging Hand]
5. I Always Knew That You Were The One
6. Rally 'Round The Flag
7. Wildwood Boys
8. Better Things To Think About
9. Jesse James
10. Cole Younger Polka
11. Escape From Northfield
12. Leaving Missouri
13. Jesse James

Disc: 2
1. Paris, Texas
2. Brothers
3. Nothing Out There
4. Cancion Mixteca
5. No Safety Zone
6. Houston In Two Seconds (Soundtrack Version)
7. She's Leaving The Bank
8. On The Couch
9. I Knew These People
10. Dark Was The Night

Disc: 3
1. Theme From Alamo Bay
2. Gooks On Main Street
3. Too Close - Ry Cooder With Amy Madigan & John Hiatt
4. Klan Meeting
5. Sailfish Evening
6. The Last Stand [Alamo Bay] - Ry Cooder With Lee Ving
7. Quatro Vicios - Ry Cooder With Cesar Rosas & David Hidalgo
8. Search And Destroy
9. Glory

Disc: 4
1. Crossroads
2. Down In Mississippi
3. Cotton Needs Pickin'
4. Viola Lee Blues
5. See You In Hell Blind Boy
6. Nitty Gritty Mississippi
7. He Made A Woman Out Of Me
8. Feelin' Bad Blues
9. Somebody's Callin' My Name
10. Willie Brown Blues
11. Walkin' Away Blues

Disc: 5
1. Blue City Down - Blue City - Ry Cooder
2. Elevation 13 Ft. - Blue City - Ry Cooder
3. True Believers / Marianne - True Believers
4. Nice Bike - Blue City - Ry Cooder
5. Greenhouse - Blue City - Ry Cooder
6. Billy And Annie - Blue City - Ry Cooder
7. Pops And 'Timer / Tell Me Something Slick - Blue City - Ry Cooder
8. Blue City
9. Don't Take Your Guns To Town - Blue City - Ry Cooder
10. A Leader Of Men - Blue City - Ry Cooder
11. Not Even Key West - Blue City - Ry Cooder

Disc: 6
1. Main Theme [Johnny Handsome]
2. I Can't Walk This Time/The Prestige
3. Angola
4. Clip Joint Rhumba
5. Sad Story
6. Fountain Walk
7. Cajun Metal
8. First Week At Work
9. Greasy Oysters
10. Smells Like Money
11. Sunny's Tune
12. I Like Your Eyes
13. Adios Donna
14. Cruising With Rafe
15. How's My Face
16. End Theme [Johnny Handsome]

Disc: 7
1. Video Drive-By
2. Trespass [Main Title]
3. East St. Louis
4. Orgill Bros.
5. Goose And Lucky
6. You Think It's On Now
7. Solid Gold
8. Heroin
9. Totally Boxed In
10. Give 'Em Cops
11. Lucy In The Trunk
12. We're Rich
13. King Of The Streets
14. Party Lights[/tracklisting]
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The British pre-order price has dropped by £7, and is now just £15.86:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00M97MWUI/?tag=imwan-21

Thanks to Linda I preordered mine and it is even cheaper now.

Order Total: £16.30 and that includes shipping. Grab it, Ry Cooder soundtracks are very cool.

Rick A.

Bump: The American release date has been pushed back to next Tuesday, October 7th. (The British pressing came out this week as scheduled.)

Mine is already on the way from the UK

+1

Rick A.

Hope you got yours, Rick. Mine was delivered yesterday

Yeah NoPhoneNoPoolNoPets, mine came in yesterday as well. I still can't believe we received all those soundtracks for the price we paid.

Rick A.