Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music (1976)

Tracklist

1.  The Bourgeois Blues - 3:22

       Lead Belly

2. I Got Mine - 4:28

       Traditional; based on Pink Anderson's version

3.  Always Lift Him Up/Kanaka Wai Wai - 6:01

        Blind Alfred Reed/Traditional

4.  He'll Have to Go - 5:07

        Joe Allison, Audrey Allison

5.  Smack Dab in the Middle - 3:18

        Charles E. Calhoun

6.  Stand by Me - 3:38

        Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

7.  Yellow Roses - 6:11

       Ken Devine, Sam Nichols

8.  Chlo-e" (instrumental) - 3:00

       Gus Kahn, Neil Moret

9 . Goodnight, Irene - 4:32

       Lead Belly, John Lomax

Musicians

• 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, mandolin, 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 "Yellow Roses" and "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"

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

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Marketed By – WEA Records B.V.
• Distributed By – Negram B.V.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Made By – N.V. Negram
• Lacquer Cut At – Bovema / EMI Studios – 29349
• Lacquer Cut At – Bovema / EMI Studios – 29350

Notes

Released: 1976 

Recorded at:  Studio Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood; "Yellow Roses" and "Chloe" recorded in Hawaii 

Genre:  Americana, Roots Rock, Tex-Mex

Length: 39:37 

Producer:  Ry Cooder 

Label - Reprise Records