Ry Cooder – Chicken Skin Music
Two more releases from the
Acoustic Sounds 40th Anniversary Series
A roots music tapestry combining Hawaiian, gospel, conjunto, folk and blues
Part of the Acoustic Sounds 40 Series
Releasing 40 titles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Acoustic Sounds
180-gram 45 RPM double LP
Mastered from the original master tape
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing
The title says it all — Chicken Skin Music means goosebumps, and Ry Cooder delivers them in spades.
Released in 1976, this groundbreaking album captures Cooder at his most adventurous, blending gospel, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, folk, and blues into one seamless, soul-stirring whole. Long before “world music” was a genre, Cooder was already building the bridges — connecting sounds, cultures, and traditions with unmatched taste and precision.
What makes Chicken Skin Music so extraordinary is the joy in the playing. Cooder’s slide guitar glides effortlessly alongside Flaco Jiménez’s accordion, Gabby Pahinui’s slack-key stylings, and gospel-choir harmonies that lift every track skyward.
Songs like “He’ll Have to Go,” “Stand by Me,” and “Always Lift Him Up / Kanaka Wai Wai” radiate warmth and humanity, revealing Cooder’s rare gift for honouring tradition while reinventing it in his own unmistakable voice.
Few records sound this alive, this inclusive, or this downright moving. It’s Ry Cooder at his most inspired.
Track List: Ry Cooder – Chicken Skin Music
LP 1 Side A
1. The Bourgeois Blues
2. I Got Mine
LP 1 Side B
1. Always Lift Him Up
2. He’ll Have To Go
LP 2 Side A
1. Smack Dab In The Middle
2. Stand By Me
LP 2 Side B
1. Yellow Rose
2. Chloe
3. Goodnight Irene
Brand
Acoustic Sounds
Headquartered in Salina, Kansas, Acoustic Sounds, Inc. is the world leader in audiophile music. Owned by CEO Chad Kassem, who founded the company in 1986, Acoustic Sounds is a global leader of the largest selection of highest-quality music in a variety of formats. Along with LPs, SACDs, reel-to-reel tape and other forms of high-quality audio recordings, all designed to exceed the expectations of audiophiles.
The company owns its own record pressing plant, Quality Record Pressings, and its own vinyl reissue label (Analogue Productions), an original production label (APO Records), its own print shop (Acoustic Sounds Printing), its own recording studio (Blue Heaven Studios), and its own LP mastering business (The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios).
Analogue Productions
Analogue Productions
It was in 1992 that Acoustic Sounds owner Chad Kassem reissued his first Analogue Productions title, Virgil Thompson's The Plow That Broke The Plains, originally on Vanguard.
Analogue Productions began as a vehicle for Kassem to license his favorite all-time recordings and reissue them as remastered and as a superior version to the original release.
Since its inception AP has reissued hundreds of titles, ranging from classical to folk, pop, rock, blues and jazz.
Included in the many highlights of Analogue Productions' history are the Fantasy 45 Jazz Reissues, the Blue Note Reissues, and premium box sets of the music of such legendary acts as The Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nat "King" Cole and Norah Jones.
True to its name, Analogue Productions works with the original analogue master tapes - more than any other reissue label! The result is superior sound - richer, warmer and more lifelike, than digital.
