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Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (2007)

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Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (2007)

Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (2007)
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Country Blues, Country Folk, Americana | Label: Nonesuch | # 7559-79961-2 | 01:10:50

My Name Is Buddy: Another Record by Ry Cooder is the thirteenth studio album by Ry Cooder. It is the second social-political concept album by Ry Cooder. Cooder has described it as the second in a trilogy that began with Chávez Ravine and concluded with I, Flathead. The album is packaged in a small booklet that includes a brief story and drawing to accompany each song. Both the songs and the stories relate tales from the viewpoint of the characters, Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad. The liner notes ask listeners/readers to join them as they "Journey through time and space in days of labor, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos, and trains… the America of yesteryear".

The oddest ideas sometimes come in the mail. A couple of years ago when Ry Cooder was putting some final touches to Chavez Ravine, his inspired album of songs excavating the Hispanic community that was bulldozed to make way for Dodger Stadium in LA, he received through the post a picture of Leadbelly. In place of the bluesman's face were the Photoshopped features of a red tom cat. The picture came from a friend without much explanation; Cooder stored it in his head, mulled it over and, when he had finished Chavez Ravine, saw a way he could build a story, a sequel even, around it.

My Name is Buddy is the hugely entertaining result of that mulling. It's a road trip through vernacular American music, dustbowl blues, gospel, folk and bluegrass in the company of three unlikely characters: Buddy Red Cat, a hobo tabby - 'I just got my suitcase in my hand, walked across the tracks, caught me the end of an old freight train, and never did look back' - and the friends he meets along the way: Lefty the Mouse, a union rodent till he dies, and the Reverend Tom Toad, a blind, gospel-singing, guitar-playing amphibian, forced out of his home by the Ku Klux Klan.

It sounds a little like Animal Farm as conceived by Woody Guthrie, or Bruce Springsteen's take on Wind in the Willows. It's Tom Waits in his Mule Variations phase, minus some of the dislocation and rasp. It comes with a little book written by Cooder in the voice of Red Cat giving the back story of the songs: 'This happened in Stockton, California. We heard that Carlos Bulosan himself was going to give a talk to some fruit-pickers over at the Filipino dance hall after the dancing got through …' It adds up to a light-hearted, sometimes poignant elegy for the American working man and his music, for the days of 'labour, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops and sundown towns'.

Cooder has assembled his usual stellar cast of musicians to accompany him on this journey: Red Cat's wanderings are haunted by the tin whistle of Paddy Maloney, the original Chieftain, and by the bluegrass mandolin genius Roland White. There's authentic guttural blues on tracks like 'Sundown Town' and lounge jazz featuring the piano of Jacky Terrasson on 'Green Dog', but the dominant themes are home-made and toe-tapping.

For the brilliant 'J Edgar', a tribute to a homburg-hatted pig who couldn't stop taking more than his share - 'J Edgar, J Edgar just look what you've done/ You've eaten up the cherry pie that was for everyone' - Cooder teams up with folk veterans Mike and Pete Seeger on duelling banjos to great effect. It's all played lovingly, in homage to the local and the lost, but with more than the odd wink towards good-natured pastiche. At one point Cooder wraps his voice around a wonderful heartbreaky Hank Williams tribute, 'Who says cats can't understand a real good country song?' and lets you guess about the tone.

In all of this, as with Chavez Ravine, Cooder demonstrates how he has brought home the lessons he learned producing the Buena Vista Social Club in Cuba, reminding himself that the most authentic music is always just around the corner. 'We're not doing this to be nostalgic,' he says; he believes the issues and the sounds are just as urgent as they ever were. He makes a strong case, and anyhow, as a slogan 'One cat, one vote, one beer' would be hard to beat in any era.

Review by Tim Adams, The Observer


During the present era, as the Iraq war grinds on, Americans are trying belly-button gazing, trying to remember a history where America regarded itself as world citizen, and came to the aid of many nations in trouble and nearing despair. It is true that this is part of our national heritage and America as a whole is, or at least used to be, known the globe over for the generosity of its people. Like any story, there are multiple narrative threads at work in defining such a history, and at least one has been all but forgotten and virtually erased by numerous politicos since the 1980s. Ry Cooder's My Name Is Buddy offers a view of an America in deep trouble with itself during the Great Depression when it either couldn't – or wouldn't? – feed its own people. Cooder's narrative is told in his own versions of folk tales through the voices of Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and the Reverend Tom Toad. They are set during the Dust Bowl era of the '30s when many people were economically forced to relocate or become ramblers and hoboes, roaming listlessly over the continental terrain. The truth behind these stories is an official part of American history, yet they were all but absent in "popular culture" during the last two decades with few exceptions. Music has recently – in the mid-'90s tribute to Woody Guthrie, and in the music of Bruce Springsteen, Michael Franti, Mike Ness, and Bob Dylan – addressed this period and on occasion gotten into the charts.

The politics here are unapologetically left of center: J. Edgar Hoover is portrayed in a song about a pig bearing his name, a copy of Karl Marx's Das Kapital adorns the inside cover (one of the beautiful illustrations by Vincent Valdes), the songs are chock-full of unions and strikes, labor and hobo camps, big bosses, sundown towns, bigotry, and corruption. The lyrics have their fair share of real anger in them, though there is no political sloganeering or sermonizing – just check out "One Cat, One Vote, One Beer" – Cooder uses humor instead. He introduces each of the 17 tunes with prosaic vignettes (one for each track) in the CD booklet; these provide the context of each song. Old-timey string band music, blues, bluegrass, country, polka, jazz, corridos, and more are the musical vehicles these tunes travel the rails and roads in, and Cooder has again chosen his collaborators well. While Mike Seeger, now a king of the traditional American music scene, is a mainstay on fiddle and other instruments, his brother Pete, an actual warrior of the time period portrayed, is also present , as are Ry's son Joachim, bassist Mike Elizondo, Juliette Commagere, Stefon Harris, Flaco Jimenez, Van Dyke Parks, Roland White, Jim Keltner, Jon Hassell, the Chieftains' Paddy Moloney, and others. Here is a supergroup arranged in various conglomerations to play simple tunes that tell hard stories, funny though they may be on the surface.

Singling out tracks is mostly futile, because all 17 are solid, noteworthy in their own merit making the whole virtually unassailable. Besides, the contextual framing of this concept work is important enough to warrant notice as an "unofficial" history–as if the official version were any more accurate; music has a way of making folk tales true, and when informed by the perspective of history, becomes part and parcel of the thing itself. What can be said is that My Name Is Buddy sounds like another restless Ry Cooder album, though rooted as it is in the very music he was playing when he began his recording career some 17 albums ago (the subtitle of the album is "Another Record by Ry Cooder.") After resurrecting the Buena Vista Social Club, his last outing, Chavez Ravne, was a look at one of the last working class L.A. neighborhoods of the past, from the street and from outer space, through social narrative toward the future of its ruins. My Name Is Buddy is an offering where time and space are erased too; so much so that the past is looking at the future looking back at itself as in some dirty mirror uncovered in a corner of a forgotten closet. All of this said, the set is actually great fun to listen to; it is ever shifting musically, friendly, full of the kind of warmth that folk tales generate. The main characters may be mythological, but these days, when anyone remembers or even speaks of Joe Hill, Paul Robeson, Emma Goldman, Guthrie, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, David Harris, Marcus Garvey, Fred Hampton or even Phil Ochs, it's as if they were mythic creatures who passed through social history to instruct not as real people, but as voices from an ether we can't quite tune in anymore. At least one of these men is alive in the simple, sage-like persona of Pete Seeger, who continues the struggle that his late fellow myths had to hand down. Fans of Cooder's will flip over this; fans of freak folk might get a mighty charge out of it as well and find a way to dig deeper into the subjects addressed. Certainly the NPR crowd will find it an all but obligatory-to-own CD, but in so many ways, My Name Is Buddy isn't really for any of them: it's for those who are encountering these kinds of stories for the first time. It's a record of an era, but it's also an introduction to a way of looking at America from inside that hasn't been represented in "popular" music for quite some time. Instrumentally and lyrically brilliant, sociologically intelligent, and anthropologically astute, My Name Is Buddy stands tall against Cooder's best work from the '70s; whether it be his self-titled debut, Paradise and Lunch, Into the Purple Valley or Boomer's Story. My Name Is Buddy is an equal among greats, and may prove to be as enduring, but it's more than that, too: it's a re-telling; a reclaiming of history in the grand treasure trove of the folk tradition.

Review by Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com


Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (2007)



Tracklist:

01. Suitcase in My Hand [w. Roland White] (02:54)
02. Cat and Mouse (05:02)
03. Strike! (05:07)
04. J. Edgar (02:37)
05. Footprints in the Snow [w. Roland White] (03:07)
06. Sundown Town [Terry Evans & Bobby King, vocal] (02:57)
07. Green Dog [w. Juliette Commagere] (07:33)
08. The Dying Truck Driver [w. Roland White] (04:56)
09. Christmas in Southgate (03:27)
10. Hank Williams (04:09)
11. Red Cat Till I Die (03:08)
12. Three Chords and the Truth (05:02)
13. My Name is Buddy (03:12)
14. One Cat, One Vote, One Beer (04:15)
15. Cardboard Avenue (04:33)
16. Farm Girl [w. Juliette Commagere] (03:54)
17. There's a Bright Side Somewhere (04:49)


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Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (2007)

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