Chavez Ravine

[pogue_mahone]

This new album by the legendary Ry Cooder tells the story of Chavez Ravine, a working-class community in Los Angeles which was bulldozed to make way for the Brooklyn Dodgers new stadium. The album also examines the Cold-War, anti-communist attitudes of the authorities, and how the interests of American business were allowed to destroy an entire community. I highly recommend this to anyone who's bored of the mass-produced, commercialised crap that litters the music scene.

Chavez Ravine - at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...573705?v=glance (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009353IW/102-4561116-7573705?v=glance)

Chavez Ravine - a record by Ry Cooder http://www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/rycooder/

The Chavez Ravine story
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chavezravine/cr.html

[Bugalu Shrimp]

Yes it's superb, he's done another Buena Vista..

[The Grey Blur]

I've heard 'Poor Man's Shangri-la' on which Ry himself sings and thought it was excellent, I'm gonna get this album soon as I can.

[Tupac-Amaru]

Yep! Nice album.

I like the UFO song :ph34r: