Ry Cooder is heading for the Animal Farm with My Name Is Buddy.
The likely best pick in new album releases this week is My Name Is Buddy by Ry Cooder. The album has some kind of Animal Farm-sounding storyline told through original Cooder songs in dustbowl style. The Amazon reviewer describes Buddy the Cat thusly: "Buddy seems like a feline cross between Woody Guthrie and Joe Hill--a troubadour of union solidarity, interspecies brotherhood, and radical populism." For someone not known as a hitmaker, I note that Cooder's album rates as high as #12 currently at Amazon.…
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