Chicken Skin Music

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Chicken Skin Music is a 1976 album by American guitarist Ry Cooder that blends roots rock, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, gospel, and R&B influences into a distinctive, genre-crossing sound.

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Chicken Skin Music canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf music album
studio album
artist Ry Cooder
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Susan Titelman
featuresGuestMusician Atta Isaacs
Clifford Solomon
Flaco Jiménez
Gabby Pahinui
George Bohanon
featuresInstrument accordion
bass guitar
drums
guitar
mandolin
percussion
steel guitar
vocals
genre Americana
Hawaiian music
Tex-Mex
gospel
rhythm and blues
roots rock
world music
hasCriticalReputation critically acclaimed
hasType genre-crossing album
includesMusicalStyle Cajun influences
Hawaiian slack-key guitar
Mexican-American influences
language English
mainTheme cross-cultural musical fusion
reinterpretation of American roots music
nextWork Show Time
notableTrack Always Lift Him Up / Kanaka Wai Wai
Chloe
Goodnight Irene
He'll Have to Go
surface form: He’ll Have to Go

I Got Mine
Smack Dab in the Middle
Stand by Me
surface form: Stand By Me

The Bourgeois Blues
Yellow Roses
performer Ry Cooder
previousWork Paradise and Lunch
producer Ry Cooder
publicationYear 1976
recordedInDecade 1970s
recordLabel Reprise Records
releaseDate 1976-10-25

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Ry Cooder notableWork Chicken Skin Music