Ry Cooder recommendation...

Right you are sfar, Ry and Flaco have worked together a lot.

infection, Van Vliet was, as expected, like no one else I've ever seen. Said not a word to the audience! His vocals were very low-pitched, and his band played very economically, leaving much more space than most. Like Jazz players---very deliberate phrasing, notes played to achieve a desired effect, not just played to be playing something, like most Rock players. The whole thing was rather cerebral, directed at the intellect, not the heart or testosterone ;-).

As chazro said, Little Village is the group Ry had with John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner. That same line up is also on Hiatt’s Bring The Family album, the first they did together. BTF has much better songs than does the Little Village album imo.

Ry is very serious about his recorded guitar sound, which is what led him to record his Bob Till You Drop album in the then brand-new digital format. He hated the sound of his guitar on that album. When he heard a Water Lily label (the great Santa Barbara California audiophile record company, owned by recording engineer Tavi Alexander) album, Ry asked "Why don’t my records sound this good?". He ended up doing an album for the label himself, the one mentioned by sfar and sbank above. The album sounds great, and will be of interest to World Music fans more than to others.

Ry is not only a great guitarist (though not much of a singer), but quite a musicologist as well. All his albums are deeply musical, and unlike any you’ve heard by anyone else. One of our National musical treasures!

Chazro is SO right about David Lindley! He played guitar for Jackson Browne for years, and his first two Asylum solo albums with El Rayo-X kick ass! The albums sound real good, too. David and Ry are pals, with great respect for each other.