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Ry Cooder recommendation...

My knowledge of his work has never been more than his participation on Safe As Milk...but I recently heard a performance at some folk festival from 1979 on the radio & it was just him playing a slide guitar.
Can anyone recommend an album of the same stripped back style ? 

Thanks.
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martykl
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Chicken Skin Music - a record that will reward listeners forever.
martykl
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His first record "Ry Cooder" is also pretty terrific.  It's a collection that's kind of centered on depression era themes.  "One Meatball" and "How Can a Poor Man Survive" are typical examples.  In some ways, I prefer this one to Chicken Skin, which I recommended above and which remains IMO a classic.
martykl
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Well, if you count anything with a repeating 1/4/5 progression as "some form of the blues", you’re going to pick up a LOT of music with that net.
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