Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine is a post-World War II-era American narrative of "cool cats," radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball. The record is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Ch vez Ravine. Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside Chicano community, which was bulldozed by developers in the 1950s in the interest of "progress;" Dodgers Stadium ultimately was built on the site. The musical strains of Los Angeles, including conjunto, corrido, R&B, Latin pop, and jazz, conjure the ghosts of Ch vez Ravine and Los Angeles at mid-century. On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by East L.A. legends like Chicano music patriarch Lalo Guerrero, Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti, Thee Midniters front man Little Willie G., and Ersi Arvizu, of The Sisters and El Chicano

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. POOR MAN'S SHANGRI-LA
2. ONDA CALLEJERA
3. DON'T CALL ME RED
4. CORRIDO DE BOXEO
5. MUY FIFI
6. LOS CHUCOS SUAVES
7. CHINITO CHINITO
8. 3 COOL CATS
9. EL U.F.O. CAYO
10. IT'S JUST WORK FOR ME
11. IN MY TOWN
12. EJERCITO MILITAR
13. BARRIO VIEJO
14. 3RD BASE, DODGER STADIUM
15. SOY LUZ Y SOMBRA