Chicken Skin Music

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
Ry Cooder chronology
Paradise and Lunch (1974) Chicken Skin Music (1976) Showtime (1977)

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Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder's fifth album, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music).

Track listing

Side One

1. "The Bourgeois Blues" (Lead Belly) – 3:22
2. "I Got Mine" (Traditional, based on Pink Anderson's version) – 4:28
3. "Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai" (Blind Alfred Reed/Traditional) – 6:01
4. "He'll Have to Go" (Joe Allison, Audrey Allison) – 5:07

Side Two

1. "Smack Dab in the Middle" (Chuck Calhoun) – 3:18
2. "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:38
3. "Yellow Roses" (Ken Devine, Sam Nichols) – 6:11
4. "Chlo-e" (Gus Kahn, Neil Moret) – 3:00
5. "Goodnight Irene" (Lead Belly, John Lomax) – 4:32

Personnel

• George Bohanon – 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
• Milt Holland – percussion, drums
• 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
• Judy Maizel, Trudy Portch - production coordination
• Lee Herschberg - engineer, mixing
• Bobby Hata, John Neal - assistant engineers

Releases

• CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1988
• Cassette Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
• CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
• CD Chicken Skin Music WEA 2007
• CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 2008

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