Ry Cooder on a Rickenbacher bakelite Spanish

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Ry Cooder on a Rickenbacher bakelite Spanish

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This is not lap steel, but it is a bakelite Rickenbacher (Spanish neck), bottleneck slide, Ry Cooder, and pretty freakin' amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcfrCRCyG4

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Fred Kinbom wrote:...pretty freakin' amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcfrCRCyG4

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Thanks for the link, Fred!

"Pretty freakin' amazing" is what I would call a massive understatement when it comes to Ry Cooder.

I would like to follow Ry around and catch the excess music in a bucket that drips off him and have a little bit of it for myself.
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Post by Alan Brookes »

Pretty good. Who would have believed it started out as a Woody Guthrie song ?
I prefer this version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KmbUCw ... playnext=1
It's more true to the original, and I like the guitar work more. ;-)
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Post by Paul Bostic »

That totally rocks!
60's & 70's country rock is my favorite, Martin & Taylor acoustic, Fender & Washburn electric, Rickenbacher BD 8 lap steel, violin.
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Moved to Music from Steel Without Pedals.

Those Spanish (round) neck Rickenbacher Bakelite guitars are very rare. Of course, being Ry Cooder, he'd get a great sound out of any board with strings. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Phil Sottile »

I saw Ry playing the bakelite in SF Oct 2008...he's the MAN!!!!!
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Phil Sottile wrote:I saw Ry playing the bakelite in SF Oct 2008...he's the MAN!!!!!
What a soulful genius! Ry hasn't lost lost a single step since I first heard him in the '70's.
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Smokes!

I saw him in 1981 still about the best concert I've been to. :)
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Post by Steven Cummings »

Yep....
Ryland when he was young, Ryland now....
The man plays with oodles of soul...such feeling!
Musically he is one of the guys I look up to without a doubt!
Lookin' on the sunny side....
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Post by Alan Brookes »

For those not familiar with the original Woody Guthrie version, listen to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKbeSPE-uA

To see the song in context, watch this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUagbsg-HI
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Post by Paul Sutherland »

I just spent the last half hour listening to this and many other YouTube videos of Ry Cooder. I particularly liked his work with John Lee Hooker. Ry Cooder is a great talent.
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