Field recordings of plantation blues or even doo-wop records from studios long shuttered always carry with them some patina of place and time, a certain sizzle in the analog static or a warm heat ...

I read with great interest Lynell George’s extensive article about Ry Cooder’s upcoming album “Chavez Ravine” [Soundtrack for a Lost L.A.,” May 1]. I was surprised that it gave only ...

Ry Cooder with various artists, Chávez Ravine, Nonesuch Records. VIRTUALLY EVERY baseball fan knows that Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium is located in an area called Chávez Ravine. But few know ...

“Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness ... It’s easy to describe Ry Cooder as a historian, an archivist, a nostalgist, or a curator, but it’s important to remember that ...

On days like this, Ry Cooder would just as soon tuck himself ... his latest recording, “Chavez Ravine” -- a long glance back at a now-vanished Los Angeles and a poor hilltop neighborhood ...

Bemoaning what happened in Chavez Ravine is part of the modern L.A. gospel ... documentaries that captured their plight and enjoyed Ry Cooder’s 2005 concept album, “Chávez Ravine,” which ...

More than half a century later, inspired both by Normark's pictures and his own memories of east Los Angeles as it once was, the guitarist Ry Cooder has composed Chávez Ravine, an exquisite ...

RY Cooder is a musical excavator ... concept album telling the story of the lost Latino community of Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, displaced to make way for the Dodgers' baseball stadium.

Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder and Lalo Guerrero, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story combines contemporary interviews with archival footage and Normark’s haunting black-and ...

It was absolutely nauseating,” said musician Ry Cooder, whose acclaimed 2005 album “Chavez Ravine” recounts the area’s history. The bulldozing brought to an end three small communities ...

5. Poor Man's Shangri-la – Chavez Ravine (2005) We could quite easily have chosen another song with a badass guitar solo as the fifth and final track in this list, but much of the genius of Ry ...

Veteran multi-instrumentalist/musical archivist Ry Cooder follows up his concept album Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch, 2005) with another narrative, My Name is Buddy. This time, with a similarly large cast ...