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Ry cooder - lord tell me why reviews11/16/2023 Much of the music draws from a time when the various forms of roots music, American music were unsegregated. All of this is done with integrity and compassion as well as truth and passion. After that he targets "rabble rousing politicians on the TV screen" ( Humpty Dumpty World), scarred and mutilated soldiers ( Christmas Time This Year), dead-end situations ( Baby Joined The Army), the working man ( Lord Tell Me Why) and the Republican party ( If There's A God) amongst other topics and targets. El Corrido de Jesse James follows and it Flaco Jimenez on accordion with a band of brass players to give a border sound to the track in which Jesse James tells his friends in heaven that he wants his trusty 44 revolver back so that he can "put that bonus money back where it belongs." Quicksand is about those refugees that come to cross the border into the USA getting caught in the quicksand of the title. There's no mistaking the mood of the album its right there from the opening track No Banker Left Behind. Ones that have run through his musical career since it began. Outside the mainstream Ry Cooder can make the music he wants to and he can also express his deeply held views.
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