Boomer's Story

Infobox Album
Name = Boomer's Story
Type = studio
Artist = Ry Cooder


Released = 1972
Recorded = Amigo Studios, Burbank
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Reprise
Producer = Jim Dickinson, Lenny Waronker
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wiftxqe5ld0e link]
Last album = "Into the Purple Valley"
(1972)
This album = "Boomer's Story"
(1972)
Next album = "Paradise and Lunch"
(1974)

"Boomer's Story" is an album by Ry Cooder.

Track listing

ide one

# "Boomer's Story" (Traditional) – 4:13
# "Cherry Ball Blues" (Skip James) – 4:10
# "Crow Black Chicken" (Lawrence Wilson) – 2:14
# "Ax Sweet Mama" (Sleepy John Estes) – 4:23
# "Maria Elena" (Bob Russell, Lorenzo Barcelata) – 4:30

ide two

# "The Dark End of the Street" (Dan Penn, Chips Moman) – 3:25
# "Rally 'Round the Flag" (George F. Root) – 3:34
# "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) – 3:00
# "President Kennedy" (Sleepy John Estes) – 4:39
# "Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man" (Traditional) – 4:30

Personnel

*Bass - Tommy McClure
*Clarinet - Charles Lawing
*Drums - Jim Keltner, Roger Hawkins
*Guitar, Vocals on "President Kennedy" - Sleepy John Estes recorded in Collierville, Tennessee
*Harmonica - Gene Finney
*Horns - George Bohanon
*Percussion - Milt Holland
*Piano on "Rally 'Round the Flag" - Randy Newman
*Piano, Bass - Jim Dickinson
*Voices - Dan Penn, Jim Dickinson