Crossroads is the soundtrack to the 1986 film starring ralph macchio, joe seneca and jami gertz, inspired by the legend of blues musician robert johnson the film was written by john fusco and directed by walter hill and featured an original score featuring ry cooder, arlen roth and steve vai on the soundtracks guitar, and harmonica by sonny terry. Since hes a limited vocalist with erratic songwriting skills, one could justifiably argue that the soundtrack medium is the best vehicle for ry cooder s talents, allowing him to construct eclectic, chiefly instrumental pieces drawing upon all sorts of roots music and ethnic flavors often, but not always, employing his excellent blues and slide guitar. Beginning with his selftitled debut in 1970, ry cooder s records seemed to be as much history lesson as they were entertainment. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Download ry cooder chicken skin music 1976 2018, mfsl. Ry cooder biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Well im standin at the crossroads, im tryin to think right im standin at the crossroads, tryin to think.
A nice, mellow, piano blues written by ry cooder for crossroads. Crossroads is the soundtrack to the 1986 film starring ralph macchio, joe seneca and jami gertz, inspired by the legend of blues musician robert johnson. The cover art has been personally worked on by ry with tornado design the group behind the distinctive look found on several of cooder s recent studio albums, as well as rhinos 2008 anthology, the ufo has landed. His biggest influences include blind willie johnson, arthur blind blake, joseph spence and curtis mayfield. Ry cooder crossroads original motion picture soundtrack. Ry cooder no banker left behind wall street part of town transcoded and uploaded by bsanandaatyahoodotcom globalcooperativeforumdotnet addeddate 20120320 01. Ry cooder has always believed in the mutuality in music, and this may be no more evident in his career than with his fifth album, chicken skin music a hawaiian colloquialism, synonymous with goosebumps. He is a multiinstrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the united states, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries cooder s solo work draws upon many genres. Amra, sony atv publishing, emi music publishing, wixen music publishing, latinautor, latinautor. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Somebodys calling my name ry cooder crossroads ost 2. He became a bit secluded and began playing the guitar. But its cooder s guitar playing that highlights the album.
Cooder has played on several albums from the rolling stones, john lee. Crossroads suite is a song by steve vai from the album crossroads. Feelin bad blues guitar ry cooder keyboards dolceola jim dickinson. The ersatz blues story of the film gives ry cooder leeway to turn in an impressive bluesderived soundtrack featuring sonny terry along with his usual collaborators van dyke parks, jim keltner, nathan east, and others.
Ry cooder crossroads original motion picture soundtrack 1986. Ryland peter cooder born march 15, 1947 is an american musician, songwriter, film score composer and record producer. You will get 2 track for free after confirming your account. Crossroads original motion picture soundtrack music by ry cooder track. Ry cooder no banker left behind wall street part of. Crossroads 1986 rock ry cooder download rock music. Ive heard so many conflicting stories about who played exactly what in this sequence that i dont believe anyone except cooder and vai and maybe the filmsound editor knows for sure. Find album release information for crossroads ry cooder on allmusic. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. He is known mostly for his slide guitar work, his passion for american roots music, and for his collaborations with the rolling stones, the buena vista social club and many other musicians from countries all around the world. The film was written by john fusco and directed by walter hill and featured an original score featuring ry cooder, arlen roth and steve vai on the soundtracks guitar, and harmonica by sonny.
Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. Cooder managed to make the films title relevant also for the music, which sounds like the crossroads of the traditional and the contemporary blues e. Down in mississippi remastered version by ry cooder. As typical with ry cooder, the music for the film of the same name is wellinformed blues.
Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. This will be a 7cd box called soundtracks, with the usual complete albums clamshell box and card minijackets. Check out crossroads ost by ry cooder on amazon music. Released in 1978, jazz seems to be his first conscious attempt at a concept album, in the historical sense. I am a longtime ry cooder fan, but this is about his weakest effort ever. Anyway, getting this call from walter hill, and then from ry, surely seemed like cooder was making it up to me tom wheeler of guitar player magazine still contends that it was he who got me the crossroads. Listen free to ry cooder crossroads crossroads, down in mississippi and more. Crossroads by robert johnson, performed by terry evans, ry. Not because cooder was trying to club you over the head with this stuff. The ry coodersteve vai crossroads guitar duel jims. The slide guitar part ralph machio is played by rye cooder. Ry cooder how can a poor man stand such times and live by mbroders.
Heres the duel, which is actually played by steve vai with ry cooder playing macchios part, or at least the bottleneck portion of it. Amra, sony atv publishing, emi music publishing, wixen music publishing, latinautor, latinautor sonyatv. Listen to your favorite songs from crossroads ost by ry cooder now. Album crossroads ost licensed to youtube by wmg on behalf of rhino warner. Guitar tablature pdf transcribed by dave whitehill.