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Chicken Skin Music 
Studio album by Ry Cooder Released 1976 Genre Americana, roots rock, blues, country, Tex-Mex Length 39:37 Label Reprise Producer Ry Cooder Professional reviews 
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Ry Cooder chronology Paradise and Lunch
(1974)Chicken Skin Music
(1976)Showtime
(1977)Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder's fifth album, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music).
Contents
Track listing
- "The Bourgeois Blues" (Leadbelly) – 3:22
- "I Got Mine" (Traditional) – 4:28
- "Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai" (Traditional) – 6:01
- "He'll Have to Go" (Joe Allison, Audrey Allison) – 5:07
- "Smack Dab in the Middle" (Chuck Calhoun) – 3:18
- "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:38
- "Yellow Roses" (Ken Devine, Sam Nichols) – 6:11
- "Chloe" (Gus Kahn, Neil Moret) – 3:00
- "Goodnight Irene" (Leadbelly, John Lomax) – 4:32
Personnel
- George Bohannon – horn and baritone arrangement
- Oscar Brashear – cornet
- Red Callender – upright bass, tuba
- Ry Cooder – Bajo Sexto, mandola, bottleneck guitar, French accordion, electric guitar, slack-key guitar, tiple, Hawaiian guitar, vocals
- Chris Ethridge – bass
- Terry Evans – vocals
- Cliff Givens – vocals
- Laurence Fishburne - vocals
- Hugo Gonzales – banjo
- Chet Himes – engineer
- Milt Holland – percussion, drums
- John Ingle – engineer
- Atta Isaacs – slack-key and acoustic guitar
- Fred Jackson, Jr. – tenor saxophone
- Flaco Jiménez – accordion
- Herman E. Johnson – vocals
- Jim Keltner – drums
- Bobby King – vocals
- Henry Ojeda – bass
- Gabby Pahinui – steel guitar, vocals
- Benny Powell – trombone
- Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone
- Russ Titelman – banjo, bass, vocals, producer
Charts
Album
Year Chart Peak 1976 Billboard Pop Albums 177 Solo albums Ry Cooder (1970) · Into the Purple Valley (1972) · Boomer's Story (1972) · Paradise and Lunch (1974) · Chicken Skin Music (1976) · Showtime (1977) · Jazz (1978) · Bop till You Drop (1979) · Borderline (1980) · The Slide Area (1982) · Get Rhythm (1987) · Chávez Ravine (2005) · My Name Is Buddy (2007) · I, Flathead (2008) · Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011)Collaborative
albumsLittle Village (1992) · A Meeting by the River (1993) · Talking Timbuktu (1994) · Buena Vista Social Club (1997) · Hollow Bamboo (2000) · Mambo Sinuendo (2003) · San Patricio (2010)Categories:- 1970s rock album stubs
- 1976 albums
- Ry Cooder albums
- Albums produced by Russ Titelman
- Reprise Records albums
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