Get Rhythm (Ry Cooder album)

Get Rhythm
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released	November 1987 (1987-11)
Studio	Ocean Way, Los Angeles
Genre	Roots rock[1]
Length	40:43
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Ry Cooder
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

1. "Get Rhythm" (Johnny Cash)
2. "Low Commotion" (Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner)
3. "Going Back to Okinawa" (Ry Cooder)
4. "Thirteen Question Method" (Chuck Berry)
5. "Women Will Rule the World" (Raymond Quevedo)
6. "All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell)
7. "I Can Tell by the Way You Smell" (Walter Davis)
8. "Across the Borderline" (Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, John Hiatt)
9. "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

1. "Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder". AllMusic.
2. "Get Rhythm Ry Cooder". AllMusic.
3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Ry Cooder". www.robertchristgau.com.
4. Barron, Jack (14 November 1987). "Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm". New Musical Express. p. 35.
5. "Strung Along". August 12, 2008 – via www.newyorker.com.
6. "RY COODER CHARTS HIS OWN COURSE". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1987.
7. 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.