Chicken Skin Music

Chicken Skin Music
Chicken Skin Music
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released	1976
Studio	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
Singles from Chicken Skin Music
	"He'll Have to Go / The Bourgeois Blues"; Released: 1976;
Song sample
	"Yellow Roses" sample file; help;

Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder's fifth studio album, released in 1976, on the Reprise label.

Track listing[]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Bourgeois Blues"	Lead Belly	3:22
2.	"I Got Mine"	Traditional; based on Pink Anderson's version	4:28
3.	"Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai"	Blind Alfred Reed/Traditional	6:01
4.	"He'll Have to Go"	Joe Allison, Audrey Allison	5:07

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Smack Dab in the Middle"	Charles E. Calhoun	3:18
6.	"Stand by Me"	Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller	3:38
7.	"Yellow Roses"	Ken Devine, Sam Nichols	6:11
8.	"Chlo-e" (instrumental)	Gus Kahn, Neil Moret	3:00
9.	"Goodnight, Irene"	Lead Belly, John Lomax	4:32

Sources:^[2]^[3]

George Bohanon – baritone horn and horn arrangement on "I Got Mine"
Oscar Brashear – cornet on "I Got Mine"
Red Callender – upright bass
Ry Cooder – bajo sexto, mandola, bottleneck guitar, French accordion, electric guitar, slack-key guitar, tiple, Hawaiian guitar, vocals
Chris Ethridge – bass guitar
Jimmy Adams - vocals
Terry Evans – vocals
Cliff Givens – vocals
Laurence Fishburne - vocals
Hugo Gonzales – bajo sexto on "Good Night Irene"
Milt Holland – percussion, drums
Atta Isaacs – slack-key and acoustic guitar on "Chloe"
Fred Jackson Jr. – tenor saxophone on "I Got Mine"
Flaco Jiménez – accordion on "He'll Have to Go", "Stand By Me" and "Goodnight Irene"
Herman E. Johnson – vocals
Jim Keltner – drums
Bobby King – vocals
Henry Ojeda – bass on "Good Night Irene"
Gabby Pahinui – steel guitar on "Chloe"
Benny Powell – trombone on "I Got Mine"
Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone on "He'll Have to Go"
Russ Titelman – bajo sexto on "Stand By Me"
Frank Villarreal - alto saxophone on "Good Night Irene"
Isaac Garcia - drums on "Good Night Irene"

Year	Chart	Peak
1976	Australian (Kent Music Report)	80^[6]
1976	Billboard Pop Albums	177

^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ "Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music". Discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ Chicken Skin Music, (1976) Reprise Records, CD: 7599-27231-2 - Notes booklet
^ "Ry Cooder - He'll Have To Go". Discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ "Ry Cooder - Goodnight Irene". Discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ 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.

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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)