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I, Flathead Limited Deluxe Edition | 
| Artist: Ry Cooder
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $25.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 362
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.7 x 0.5
UPC: 075597993431
EAN: 0075597993431
ASIN: B0017PCXQG
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Drive Like I Never Been Hurt | | • | Waitin' For Some Girl | | • | Johnny Cash | | • | Can I Smoke In Here | | • | Steel Guitar Heaven | | • | Ridin' With the Blues | | • | Pink-O Boogie | | • | Fernando Sez | | • | Spayed Kooley | | • | Fillipino Dance Hall Girl | | • | My Dwarf is Getting Tired | | • | Flathead One More Time | | • | 5000 Country Music Songs | | • | Little Trona Girl |
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Album Description
Deluxe limited edition includes book. Ry Cooder's I, Flathead is the culmination of his ambitious and fascinating "California Trilogy," the last of three albums in which the singer and guitarist journeys through the real and imagined history of mid-20th century, multi-ethnic California, sampling the sounds of its barrios and byways, its nightclubs and honkytonks. The CD functions beautifully on its own, but also serves as a sort of soundtrack to the book equivalent. Abetting Cooder in his story telling is a veritable repertory of players who've appeared in the previous discs in the trilogy, among them drummer Joachim Cooder, Jim Keltner, Flaco Jimenez, Jon Hassell, Juliette Commagere and Gil Bernal.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Rockin' Ry August 3, 2008
Ry just keeps me smiling. From Taj to Beefheart to the dustbowl to Hawaii,Cuba, and Africa,and this California stuff; he keeps putting out the sweetest music I hear. He is a beautiful soul. I'd love to see him in NYC(with Van Dyke Parks).
Best of the Trilogy July 28, 2008
I recently purchased the new Ry Cooder and was very glad that I did. I didn't care too much for the last one (about the cat) and I loved the first one (Chavez Ravine) but the new one really rocks! The short story that comes with the disc was great and adds a lot to the disc. Musically this disc is terrific and Ry's guitar is way up front.I say check it out!
Amazed by Cooder July 28, 2008
Pure masterpiece with road movie feeling and a true piece of
art with lotta conotations from musical history of one lost
time where Hank Williams is still riding his chevie through
lifelong road with honky tonks beside the road track. Sheer
time capsule in a timless row of many lifes. Unbeliveable
record, most likely the best of Cooder's, If that can possibly
be said. Ry created a musical story which goes beyond the digital era, something like as If this was his first or last album.
All his records are here and none of them. Limited deluxe edition
is substantial.
And now for something completely different.... July 27, 2008
Fantastic follow up to 'Chavez Ravine' and 'My Name is Buddy' Ry Cooder completes the trilogy with 'I, Flathead' - and another fascinating tale of life in bygone America.
I opted for the 'deluxe version' to include a small hard backed book written by Ryland himself - which could easily be the script for a cult movie.
Cooder's ramblings made compulsive reading - taking you back to childhood sci-fi magazines - and more adult themed media - with a great cast including the space visitor Shakey and his salt flats racing buddies.
Don't forget Kash Buck - and his band The Klowns who take the music theme of the CD.
Some critics panned Cooder's last effort for not sounding 'classic Ry Cooder'. Give the guy a break! He's entitled to take his creativity wherever he thinks fit - and his last 2 albums have been brilliant pieces of work.
As with 'My Name is Buddy', you need to embrace the whole concept - this is more than music - it's a great story WITH great music.
Stand out tracks for me include 'Steel Guitar Heaven' with a nice mention for Paul Bigsby, Ridin' with the Blues, Johnny Cash - and finally Fernando Sez.
But hell - they're all brilliant!
My advice is: 1. Read the book 2. Listen to the album - then read the book again.
All in all another gem from a modern music genius.
 Motors, motels and misfits... July 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here's Ry Cooder, a legitmate guitar hero of the last forty years or so, and he has, apparently, written a novella. A novella! A short novel--it's about 100 pages and it is included in the "Deluxe Limited Edition" of his new I, Flathead release...or should I say publication.
When was the last time somebody included a novel with their new music? This could be the start of something big. And it will inspire alt-indies everywhere to write short stories or novels or poems to go with their new musical material. It's like Ray Davies or Pete Townshend releasing Preservation or Tommy, complete with a lovely, printed novelization of their stories.
This new work fits nicely with Cooder's last couple of works; Chavez Ravine and My Name is Buddy. Along with I, Flathead, these are highly literate, beautifully produced, small works of art. Little bits of beauty in an otherwise bleak landscape of modern music. The novella is planted firmly in Sam Shepard territory-California deserts, dust, motors, motels and misfits. Told in a wry Depression-era-meets-Shepard-meets-Hank Williams voice, it may be set in today's America, or it may be set ten or twenty years ago. And it's got a main character, Shakey Lavonne, who apparently is from outer space, a space vato. It's a crazy tale of busted dreams and disappointment, duct-taped cars, abused women and brown-dirt images from the beat-up back roads outside of Lone Pine and the dry lake beds of eastern California. Places where only crazy people go, on purpose. Nested neatly with the record itself is the story and songs of Kash Buk and the Klowns, stand-ins for Ry and his friends, commenting on the novella's action.
The story could use some serious editing but since Mr. Cooder has, in effect, self-published the story...so what? He can do whatever he wants. He has struck a blow for writers and artists everywhere. And we should thank Nonesuch Records for taking the chance on such an unusual piece of work.
And the music is his strongest in years, matching the best of both of his two recent records, and as good as his work in the early 1970s. He's working with his son Joachim Cooder, old friends Rene Camacho and Flaco Jimenez. The sound he produces is handmade, airy and satisfying. Mr. Cooder is one of those guitarists who is instantly identifiable with one pluck of a string.
The sticker on the Deluxe Limited Edition warns the buyer that there's a story smuggled in the package..."for those who know how to read." Caveat emptor. I suspect that most folks will spring for the cheaper, normal CD package. I couldn't even find it at my friendly Barnes & Noble. That's too bad. It's a fine piece of American music and art. But, these days, who has time to read?
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