Chicken Skin Music

Chicken Skin Music
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released 1976
Recorded Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood; "Yellow Roses" and "Chloe" recorded in Hawaii
Genre Americana, roots rock, blues, country, Tex-Mex
Length 39:37
Label Reprise
Producer Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology
Paradise and Lunch
(1974)		 Chicken Skin Music
(1976)		 Showtime
(1977)
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Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder's fifth studio album, released in 1976, on the Reprise label.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Bourgeois Blues"Lead Belly3:22
2."I Got Mine"(trad. based on Pink Anderson's version)4:28
3."Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai"Blind Alfred Reed/trad6:01
4."He'll Have to Go"Joe Allison, Audrey Allison5:07
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Smack Dab in the Middle"Charles E. Calhoun3:18
6."Stand by Me"Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller3:38
7."Yellow Roses"Ken Devine, Sam Nichols6:11
8."Chlo-e"Gus Kahn, Neil Moret3:00
9."Goodnight, Irene"Lead Belly, John Lomax4:32

Personnel

Sources:[1][2]

Musicians

Technical

  • Ry Cooder – producer
  • Judy Maizel, Trudy Portch - production coordination
  • Lee Herschberg - engineer, mixing
  • Lloyd Cruft - engineer
  • Bobby Hata, John Neal - assistant engineers
  • Chet Himes, John Ingle - engineering
  • Kenny Price - album cover, design and painting
  • Susan Titelman - photography
  • Noel Newbolt - production assistance

Releases

  • CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1988
  • Cassette Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
  • CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 1990
  • CD Chicken Skin Music WEA 2007
  • CD Chicken Skin Music Reprise 2008

Singles

  • "He'll Have To Go" / "The Bourgeois Blues", Reprise: K 14457 (UK)[3]
  • "Goodnight Irene" / "Chloe", Reprise: K REP14473 (Netherlands)[4]

Charts

Album

YearChartPeak
1976Billboard Pop Albums177

References

  1. ↑ "Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music". Discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Chicken Skin Music, (1976) Reprise Records, CD: 7599-27231-2 - Notes booklet
  3. ↑ "Ry Cooder - He'll Have To Go". Discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Ry Cooder - Goodnight Irene". Discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2017.


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