- blues, blues rock
- 37 min
- 9 tracks
- Warner Records
Paradise and Lunch is the fourth album by roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released on June 8, 1974 on Reprise Records. The album is composed of cover versions of jazz, blues and roots standards and obscurities recorded at the Warner Brothers Studios. The final track, "Ditty Wah Ditty," showcases a duet between Cooder and jazz pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines. It was produced by Russ Titelman and Lenny Waronker. The album reached #167 on the Billboard 200.
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Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Tamp' Em up Solid3:22
- 2Tattler4:19
- 3Married Man's a Fool3:14
- 4Jesus on the Mainline4:11
- 5It's All over Now4:53
- 6Medley: Fool for a Cigarette / Feelin Good4:28
- 7If Walls Could Talk3:15
- 8Mexican Divorce3:57
- 9Ditty Wah Ditty5:42
9 tracks, 37 minutes.
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- Ry Cooder
- Label
- Warner Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
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- XW
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