Ry Cooder – Jazz (LP Vinyl)

Cooder's deep excavation of pre-swing American music, rooted in the New Orleans and Tin Pan Alley repertoire of the 1920s and 30s, drew on his gifts as both a slide guitarist and an obsessive musical archaeologist. By the time Jazz arrived in 1978, he had already spent years resurrecting forgotten corners of American vernacular music, bringing the same curatorial rigor here that made his earlier explorations of blues, gospel, and border music so compelling.