Due to unpopular demand beginning March 15, the birthday of Ry Cooder, The Bop Shop will again arrive in your mailbox daily. The space between publication days has been too intolerable with so much music there is to share among ourselves. And so, if you would like to share your favorites, it’s easy. Jot down a few lines about the piece and email it along. Off we keep going!
The New Orleans Shotgun House Dilapidatsio!
“Ry Cooder
He’s a real straight shooter
Is that Ry Cooder?
So laid back and exact in his attack of the discipline
Like a cat I wonder what bag he’s next going to get in
He’s a real shapeshifter
Better call him Mister
”Uh, Mister Cooder?”
English rocker’s all the money goes right up their nose
While Ry just smiles
And tries another difficult yoga pose
He’s a real straight spiner
Gold song 49er
He freed Cuba with a Buena Vista
Him and them, and it turned me on to old Kim Sinh
And remember those licks he played on Chicken Skin
Now imagine him laying a part down right here
Where the song grows thin
Drawing all the listeners who tuned out right back in
He’s a real sidekicker
And a mighty good leader
In and out of so many bags
A recent mandolin with bluegrass Ricky Skaggs”