Get Rhythm (Ry Cooder album)

Get Rhythm

Studio album by

Released

November 1987

Studio

Ocean Way, Los Angeles

Length

40:43

Ry Cooder chronology

The Slide Area
(1982)

Get Rhythm
(1987)

Chávez Ravine
(2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	B+^[3]
New Musical Express	4/10^[4]

Get Rhythm is a studio album by Ry Cooder.^[5] It was released in 1987.^[6]

Track listing

"Get Rhythm" (Johnny Cash)
"Low Commotion" (Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner)
"Going Back to Okinawa" (Ry Cooder)
"Thirteen Question Method" (Chuck Berry)
"Women Will Rule the World" (Raymond Quevedo)
"All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell)
"I Can Tell by the Way You Smell" (Walter Davis)
"Across the Borderline" (Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, John Hiatt)
"Let's Have a Ball" (Allen Bunn)

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak
1987	Australian (Kent Music Report)	29^[7]

Personnel

Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals, arrangements
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
Flaco Jiménez - accordion
Steve Douglas - saxophone
Jorge Calderón - bass guitar
Buell Neidlinger - acoustic bass on 2, 6, 8
Jim Keltner - drums
Miguel Cruz - percussion
Bobby King, Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, Willie Greene Jr. - backing vocals
Larry Blackmon - backing vocals on "All Shook Up"
Harry Dean Stanton - backing vocals on "Across the Borderline"

Technical

Ed Cherney - recording
Steven M. Martin - art direction
Kalan Brunink - black velvet painting

References

^ "Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder". AllMusic.
^ "Get Rhythm Ry Cooder". AllMusic.
^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Ry Cooder". www.robertchristgau.com.
^ Barron, Jack (14 November 1987). "Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm". New Musical Express. p. 35.
^ "Strung Along". August 12, 2008 – via www.newyorker.com.
^ "RY COODER CHARTS HIS OWN COURSE". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1987.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 73. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

v t e Ry Cooder
Solo albums	Ry Cooder (1970) Into the Purple Valley (1972) Boomer's Story (1972) Paradise and Lunch (1974) Chicken Skin Music (1976) Show Time (1977) Jazz (1978) Bop Till You Drop (1979) Borderline (1980) The Slide Area (1982) Get Rhythm (1987) Chávez Ravine (2005) My Name Is Buddy (2007) I, Flathead (2008) Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011) Election Special (2012) The Prodigal Son (2018)
Collaborative albums	Jamming with Edward! (1972) Little Village (1992) A Meeting by the River (1993) Talking Timbuktu (1994) Buena Vista Social Club (1997) Mambo Sinuendo (2003) Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (2008) San Patricio (2010) Live in San Francisco (2013)
Soundtrack albums	Performance (1970) The Long Riders (1980) Southern Comfort (1981) The Border (1982) Streets of Fire (1984) Paris, Texas (1985) Music from Alamo Bay (1985) Blue City (1986) Crossroads (1986) Johnny Handsome (1989) Trespass (1993) Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) Last Man Standing (1996) The End of Violence (1997) Primary Colors (1998) My Blueberry Nights (2007)

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