1970 - 1987

CD1 RY COODER

1. Alimony
2. France Chance
3. One Meat Ball
4. Do Re Mi
5. Old Kentucky Home
6. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
7. Available Space
8. Pig Meat
9. Police Dog Blues
10. Goin' To Brownsville
11. Dark Is The Night

CD2 INTO THE PURPLE VALLEY

1. How Can You Keep Moving
2. Billy The Kid
3. Money Honey
4. F.D.R. In Trinidad
5. Teardrops Will Fall
6. Denomination Blues
7. On A Monday
8. Hey Porter
9. Great Dreams From Heaven
10. Taxes On The Farmer Fees Us All
11. Vigilante Man

CD3 BOOMER'S STORY

1. Boomer's Story
2. Cherry Ball Blues
3. Crow Black Chicken
4. Ax Sweet Mama
5. Maria Elena
6. Dark End Of The Street
7. Rally 'Round The Flag
8. Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer
9. President Kennedy
10. Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man

CD4 PARADISE AND LUNCH

1. Tamp 'em Up Solid
2. Tattler
3. Married Man's A Fool
4. Jesus On The Mainline
5. It's All Over Now
6. Medley: Fool For A Cigarette
7. Fellin' Good
8. If Walls Could Talk
9. Mexican Divorce
10. Ditty Wa Ditty

CD5 CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC

1.  The Bourgeois Blues
2. I Got Mine
3. Always Lift Him Up
4. He'll Have To Go
5. Smack Dab In The Middle
6. Stand By Me
7. Yellow Roses
8. Chloe
9. Goodnight Irene

CD6 SHOW TIME

1. School Is Out
2. Alimony
3. Jesus On The Mainline
4. The Dark End Of The Street
5. Viva Sequin
6. Do Re Mi
7. Volver, Volver
8. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
9. Smack Dab In The Middle

CD7 JAZZ

1. Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now
2. Face To Face That I Shall Meet Him
3. The Pearls
4. Tia Juana
5. The Dream
6. Happy Meeting In Glory
7. In A Mist
8. Flashes
9. Davenport Blues
10. Shine
11. Nobody
12. We Shall Be Happy

CD8 BOP TILL YOU DROP

1. Little Sister
2. Go Home, Girl
3. The Very Thing That Makes You Rick (Makes Me Poor)
4. I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine
5. Down In Hollywood
6. Look At Granny Run Run
7. Trouble, You Can't Fool Me
8. Don't You Mess Up A Good Thing
9. I Can't Win

CD9 BORDERLINE

1. 634-5789
2. Speedo
3. Why Don't You Try Me
4. Down In Boondocks
5. Johnny Porter
6. The Way We Make A Broken Heart
7. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
8. The Girls From Texas
9. Borderline
10. Never Make You Move Too Soon

CD10 THE SLIDE AREA

1. UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto
2. I Need A Woman
3. Gypsy Woman
4. Blue Suede Shoes
5. Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
6. I'm Drinking Again
7. Which Came First
8. That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me

CD11 GET RHYTHM

1. Get Rhythm
2. Low-Commotion
3. Going Back To Okinawa
4. 13 Question Method
5. Women Will Rule The World
6. All Shook Up
7. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell
8. Across The Borderline
9. Let's Have A Ball

Whether serving as a session musician, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder's songwriting and chameleon-like fretted instrument expertise have led to a career spanning over nearly five decades. His work incorporates an incredibly eclectic range of musical styles, including Rock & Roll, Blues, Folk, Tex-Mex and R&B.

Famous for his slide guitar work, Ry Cooder has been highly ranked in both Rolling Stone magazine and Gibson’s Greatest Guitarists of All Time polls. His talent has seen him collaborate with many noted musicians including Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison and Neil Young.

This neatly packaged box consists of 11 of Ry Cooder’s albums from 1970 – 1987 in a compact boxset, including the first pop album digitally recorded for a major-label, Bop Till You Drop.

Ry Cooder –1970 – 1987 is packaged in a clam shell case with each album placed in an individual paper sleeve of original album artwork, contained within the convenient shelf-sized box.

For nearly five decades, Ry Cooder has taken listeners on a musical odyssey like no other. While exploring an incredibly eclectic range of styles from around the world, his acclaimed work – as a session musician, solo artist and soundtrack composer – has earned him six Grammy awards and a dedicated following of like-minded musical travelers.

Rhino has your first-class ticket to join the guitar virtuoso’s musical tour de force with a new collection that contains all 11 of the albums Cooder recorded with Warner Bros. Records.

With his albums, Cooder stakes his claim to various genres, injecting everything he plays with his imaginative arrangements and soulful sensibility. His singular take on American folk and blues runs through early albums like Ry Cooder, Into the Purple Valley, and Boomer’s Story, which include songs like “Available Space,” “Billy the Kid,” and “Dark End of the Street.”

He introduces Tex-Mex and Hawaiian touches on Chicken Skin Music, and the live collection Show Time with songs like “Yellow Roses,” “Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai,” and “Viva Sequin/Do Re Mi.” As you would expect, Jazz is given over to inventive interpretations of songs by early pioneers of the genre, including Bix Beiderbecke’s “In A Mist” and Jelly Roll Morton’s “The Pearls/Tia Juana.”

A mix of early-rock, R&B and soul take the lead on much of the music Cooder recorded at the end of the 1970s and into the 1980s. Those styles feature prominently on Bop Till You Drop, Borderline, The Slide Area, and Get Rhythm. (It’s worth noting that in 1979 Bop Till You Drop was the first digitally recorded album to be released by a major label.) Among the standout tracks from those four albums are a cover of Elvis’ “Little Sister,” (Cooder’s biggest hit), “UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto,” “Low Commotion,” and “Crazy About An Automobile,” a song that remains a staple of Cooder’s live show today.