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"With I, Flathead Ry Cooder completes the trilogy of records about 1950s/60s California that began with Chavez Ravine and continued with My Name Is Buddy. Complete with his own superb 53-page novella, the album explores a lost world of pedal steel guitarists and salt-flat drag racers. It also sounds fabulous. I talked to the wry Cooder about the album, its hero Kash Buk, and the vanished land it celebrates." - Barney Hoskyns, RBP Editorial Director Sometimes what is most exotic is what you unearth in your own back yard --or at least in your own recent cultural past. For Ry Cooder, a man who's done so much to put "world music" on the rock'n'roll map, the rediscovery of America(na) on Chavez Ravine, My Name Is Buddy and now I, Flathead has come as a kind of third wind in a career characterized by fascination with pre-rock pop culture. Now that cat in jail, was no doubt Black, because African American folks have felt the blues the most. Despite this, Leadbelly, one of the greatest blues singers, who spent many years on a prison farm in Louisiana said on a Library of Congress recording, "There was a white man who had the blues once, so it's nothing to worry about." This sentiment is part of the message that bands like the Blues Messengers are putting down today. Everybody has had the blues, because blues is the quintessential expression of experience, it's existential, what the French call "La Condition Humaine." Blues can reach anyone, anytime - - if they are willing to listen, if they dare to be honest. Full article here. Hector Zazou (July 11, 1948—September 8, 2008) was a prolific French composer and record producer who has worked with, produced, and collaborated with a large international array of recording artists. He has worked on his own and other artists' albums, including Sandy Dillon, Mimi Goese, Barbara Gogan, Sevara Nazarkhan, Carlos Nuñez, Italian group PGR, Anne Grete Preus, Laurence Revey, and Sainkho since 1976. Zazou first came to international attention as part of the ZNR duo with Joseph Racaille, where both played electric keyboards. Their 1976 debut album Barricades 3 was notable for its "strong Satie influence, stripped to minimal essentials, everything counts". As a tribute to this so creative French musician and producer,the staff here at AMP recommend that you listen to this 1991 album, Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses (it won a Victoires de la musique award in 1992). Zazou, we will not forget you !
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