Into the Purple Valley

Infobox Album |
Name = Into the Purple Valley
Type = studio
Artist = Ry Cooder


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Released = 1971
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Genre = Rock
Length = 37:06
Label = Reprise
Producer = Jim Dickinson, Van Dyke Parks and Lenny Waronker
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w69ds34ba3mg link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rycooder/albums/album/98447/review/5940459/into_the_purple_valley link]
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Chronology =
Last album = "Ry Cooder"
(1970)
This album = "Into the Purple Valley"
(1971)
Next album = "Boomer's Story"
(1972)

"Into the Purple Valley" is the second album by roots rock legend Ry Cooder, released in 1971 (see 1971 in music).

Track listing

#"How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" ( Agnes "Sis" Cunningham) – 2:25
#"Billy the Kid" (Traditional) – 3:45
#"Money Honey" (Jesse Stone) – 3:28
#"F.D.R. in Trinidad" (Fitz Maclean) – 3:01
#"Teardrops Will Fall" (Dickey Doo, Marion Smith) – 3:03
#"Denomination Blues" (George Washington Phillips) – 3:58
#"On a Monday" (Leadbelly) – 2:52
#"Hey Porter" (Johnny Cash) – 4:34
#"Great Dream from Heaven" (Joseph Spence) – 1:53
#"Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (Traditional) – 3:52
#"Vigilante Man" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:15

Personnel

*Ry Cooder - guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals
*Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
*Gloria Jones - vocals
*Claudia Lennear - vocals
*George Bohannon - horns
*John Craviotta - drums
*Joe Lane Davis - horns
*Jim Dickinson - piano
*Chris Ethridge - bass
*Milt Holland - percussion
*Jerry Jumonville - saxophone
*Fritz Richmond - bass
*Donna Washburn - vocals
*Donna Weiss - vocals
*Ike Williams - horns

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