| Artist | Ry Cooder |
|---|---|
| Cover | Boomer'sStory.jpg |
| Released | November 1972 |
| Studio |
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| Genre | Roots rock · blues · folk · Americana |
| Length | 39:05 |
| Label | Reprise |
| Producer | Jim Dickinson · Lenny Waronker |
| Prev year | 1972 |
| Next year | 1974 |
Boomer's Story is the third studio album by American roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released in November 1972.
Background
"The Dark End of the Street", co-written by Dan Penn and Chips Moman, is originally known as a recording by James Carr, but in this album it is presented as a guitar-driven instrumental.[1] The album also features "Sweet Mama" and "President Kennedy", both written by Sleepy John Estes, with Estes himself performing lead vocals on the latter.[2] Estes's parts were recorded in Collierville, Tennessee.[3]
The piano on "Rally 'Round the Flag" is played by Randy Newman.[2]
Notes
The title track was previously recorded as "The Railroad Boomer"[4] by Bud Billings (aka Frank Luther) and Carson Robison in a performance recorded at the studio at Liederkranz Hall in New York on September 9, 1929 (Victor V-40139).[5][6] Although it is credited on Cooder's album as "traditional," Robison was awarded a copyright and the song "can't be shown to have circulated in oral tradition."[7] Gene Autry recorded it in December of the same year.[8] In the 1930s the song was recorded for Decca Records by the Rice Brothers' Gang,[9][10] in 1939 by Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys, in 1941 by Riley Puckett for RCA, and in the 1950s by Cisco Houston (as "The Rambler") and by the New Lost City Ramblers, who included Cooder's guitar teacher Tom Paley.
Personnel
- Ry Cooder - guitars, mandolin, bottleneck guitar, vocals
- Tommy McClure - bass
- Charles Lawing - clarinet
- Jim Keltner, Roger Hawkins - drums
- Sleepy John Estes - guitar and vocals on "President Kennedy" (recorded in Collierville, Tennessee)
- Gene Finney - harmonica
- George Bohanon - horns
- Milt Holland - percussion
- Randy Newman - piano on "Rally 'Round the Flag"
- Jim Dickinson - piano, bass, backing vocals
- Dan Penn - backing vocals
- Technical
- Judy Maizel - production assistant
- Jerry Masters, John Fry, Lee Herschberg, Richard Rosebrough - engineer
- Susan Titelman - photography
Notes
- ^ Moon, Tom (August 16, 2006). "Music's Renegade Historian in Rural America". NPR. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ^ Hartenbach, Brett. "Boomer's Story - Ry Cooder". AllMusic. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ^ CD裏ジャケット記載のクレジットに準拠
- ^ Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.) by Norm Cohen. University of Illinois Press; 2 Sub edition. 2000. ISBN 0252068815 pgs 290-291 [1]
- ^ Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings [2]
- ^ Audio for Bud Billings and Carson Robison[3]
- ^ "The Railroad Boomer - Folklorist". www.folklorist.org. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry by Holly George-Warren. Oxford University Press: 2007. ISBN 0195177460[4]
- ^ sergiofu42 (12 April 2012). "RILEY PUCKETT Railroad Boomer". Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 14 February 2019. – via YouTube.
- ^ Mark n Victoria Macham (4 February 2011). "Rice Brothers' Gang performs Railroad Boomer written by Carson Robison & Frank Luther". Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 14 February 2019. – via YouTube.