SELF PORTRAIT OF THE DAY

APRIL FOOL'S DAY

Cooder treat!

Ok, OK I know I keep posting links to Big O but here's a weekend treat for all y'all!

Over on Big O they have posted a Ry Cooder Showtime Special.....we can't have enough Ryland P Cooder now can we.......? NO, we can't!

Ry Cooder - Cotati California 1987 (courtesy of Big O)

Now this is the time that figures as one of my favourite periods for the live Cooder, largely for the band with Bobby King & Terry Evans on vocals, Flaco Jimenez on accordion and as a special treat Van Dyke Parks on keyboards but it figures some of my all time favourite songs; Little Sister, If Walls Could Talk, Jesus on the Mainline and Dark End of The Street (first discovered a la Ry but I now collect versions of this wonderful song about secret love and number about 50 thus far and counting.) It also features a track they call Teeny Weeny Bit which I have on Bobby and Terry's fine fine album...'Live and Let Live' which also features the definitive version of Dark End..... IMHO. Get it for that alone and you won't be disappointed. It is listed there as 'Just a Little Bit' which I rate as one of the sexiest songs ever committed to vinyl but hey, each to their own huh? Try it....just a little bit! Difficult to get over here but try it on Amazon in the USA and import it....they have a download MP3 version there too if'n you cin geddit!

Enjoy! If'n ya miss it worry not as I will post it meself when it has gone from the Big O pages......

And remember the very thing that makes her rich makes me poor!

Can you dig it? I think you can!