What touches me most about this guy, this Ry Cooder; is how he is always so willing to let other musicians take the lead, let them fully express themselves, notwithstanding his own greatness and musicianship! This guy is a real mentor and performer!
Only Ry Cooder had the foresight to bring all these great musicians together. This is a once-in-a-lifetime happening although I know they had other performances together. Thank you Ry Cooder and all the members of this performance. Ry is the King of vibrato whether playing here or with a slide.
I met Ry Cooder at Lloyd Bagg's studio in LA back in 1979. Both Ry and I were just picking up our guitars that Lloyd had repaired so we chatted and played some songs for each other. I had no idea who he was, but after I heard him play I tried to recruit him into my band. He graciously declined. After Ry left, Lloyd played me some of his records, and I've been smitten with Ry's music ever since. The thing I love most about Ry's work is his focus on authenticity and history. With him a song is not just a tune, but rather a living artifact, which a great many souls have touched, molded, and in turn have been touched and molded by. This performance is a great example of that. He actually looks like he's sick, and his voice is so hoarse, but all of that imperfection helps to convey the message of the song - the despair and desperation, with Irene the only salvation slipping away, at the very edge of ending it all, and the final forlorn call to others to change their wicked ways and live clean, lest they suffer a similar fate.
+Saul Matas I met Ry Cooder last September in New Braunfels TX after a show at Gruene Hall. I talked graciously with all of us and signed his book of short stories among other items. A great gentleman and a world ambassador for great music everywhere
Thank you for this great reminiscence. I’m an ole lady guitar & ukulele player and have been a fan of Ryland since the eponymous vinyl album with the Airstream trailer down to his Prodigal Son preaching “You Must Unload” in Carnegie Hall. He’s taught me not just great guitar licks & riffs but a great side dose of American history (L.A & California) in his albums and book of stories. I take solace in the portrait he casts of the southland, and his droll, humane understanding of what makes the culture of the borderland so compelling.
Ry Cooder, ein Weltklasse Musiker der es verstanden hat andere Weltklasse Musiker zusammen zu bringen. Ich bin noch kein Fan, aber ich denke es könnte bald soweit sein. Danke Ry.😊
I've been watching this concert since I first saw it around 200K views for the whole show. One of the most quintessential concerts of those years, so gritty, so raw, so real. All the players are on full bore. However you might try to describe it, it just gets better with time.
Merry Chrismas Irene and Happy New Year ! Ry Cooder is legend and the band is fantastic with backup singers in harmony..Merry Christmas to all..r u with me?
Such a brilliant performance. So chilled back. I lost nearly ten minutes of my life lost in that performance. I had the beer...just lacked the Caribbean and the waves. Superb!
The comments by is brothers in music move me mightily. this song changed the views of a 14 year old Montana kid. I acquired a 78 of Huddy Ledbetter singing Irene and playing 12 string. It changed my views in ways that I didn't realize at the time. I 1953 I boarded a bus in Memphis Tenn I found I couldn't sit in the front of the bus. To much derision I might add. I didn't realize until much later in life why I probably did it. These songs attach themselves to us in ways we don't realize. Remember I was a 15 year old . Montana hick at the time The blues grabbed me and never let go.
Ry Cooder has been blind in one eye from an accident when he was 4 years old---for your information---he is not high on drugs. Thank you Ry Cooder for all of your wonderful music through out the years!!
My brother played this with his blues harp at the end of my fiancés funeral on a hill in Scotland under a rainy sky . This version of Ry Cooder just meets my emotions, thinking back to that day in April 2004. It made a perfect final to a great but too short life of a very unique,cheerful, openminded, caring and warmhearted person, who loved life, laughter, music - and me. r.i.p. my darling xxx never forgotten Andrea from Berlin/Germany
This is marvelous and the rhythem is so terrific and the lyrics are magical and the band is sliding along in there tempo..Ry Cooder is excellent at getting out his say in a song and passit along..😂This is just terrific flowing out to the fans wherever they may be..don't stay out late at night..got it?
Thank you for listing the names of the players and the songs they are playing. This is a valuable record of a real good time. Van Dyke Parks needed more air time. Where is he now?😅
Hope's doing well. I think his last known works were terrifc arrangements for different artists (eg a Mexican harpist). A true and most charming gentleman. And a real genius. They don't make 'em like him anymore...
Una interpretación magnífica, genial, extraordinaria , cada día la escucho antes de ir a dormir ! disfruto de todos los músicos y de cómo se han conjuntado para dar toda la relevancia que se merece el gran Ray Cooder. Desde Barcelona deseo que se repitan sesiones cómo ésta y que podamos verlas aquí. Y todavía no puedo entender que Ry Cooder que es un músico total , integral , creativo y genial ...me faltan adjetivos para describrilo no es más conocido aquí. Ojalà viniera a Barcelona alguna vez. :)
a very poingant song. ry and his pals know who they are. being able to understand the song and alleviate at the same time. it is nigh near impossible but if you know ry and his pals, nothing is impossible. fanks
Saw the Man perform after the Little Sister release in Nijmegen (that's Halland, folks), with his band, including those great vocalists. Loved him before, still love him since, Great musician, great man. Ryand, TOP1
Great performance,,,,my wifes name is Irene and she is not too well at the moment,so good night Irene and I'll see you in my dreams...Nite nite sleep tight..
Looks like good old Ry had a few too many lol . I love this guy !!! Very under rated , one of the greatest of my generation :) keep on truckin Ry !...thanks for this post
Whenever I should die, this is the song I would hear because of its sentence and most of all because of this marvelous voice and musicians, I would play and share the rithm in my coffin and everything would be allright,
This performance is a good example of why Ry Cooder is not the household name of, say, Neil Young or Jackson Browne. He took this song deeper than even Leadbelly, the author, did. It's great work, but I have to wonder what it was like for the audience, expecting some rock 'n roll thrills.
I feel fortunate to having seen this tour when they played Wolfgangs in SF. Went both nights. I have pictures to prove it! Saw Lyle Lovett last night - his gig is similiar....large band, and great vocalists in Sir Harry, Sweet Pea, and Willie Green Jr.
Flaco CANT/COULDN'T been mistaken... His own rhythm of vibrato, his own speed on the keys..., couldn't been mistaken, only FLACO did songs his way. 💯 👍
One of the great American songs in popular music ever !
Jeah is Right!
Sing on legend..The one and only Ry Cooder..great guitar player..listening still in 2022..got it..phenomenal..great band
So warming, comforting, enchanting! Balm for the soul. Am I the only one who needs this every day?
no you're not!!
Ry and Flacco with a marvelous group backing them. I sway in my dreams to this treasure.
What touches me most about this guy, this Ry Cooder; is how he is always so willing to let other musicians take the lead, let them fully express themselves, notwithstanding his own greatness and musicianship! This guy is a real mentor and performer!
man... that accordion brings it all together. Viva El Flaco!
An instrument that breaths life into any song.
I've always loved Flacco and his accordion.
Only Ry Cooder had the foresight to bring all these great musicians together. This is a once-in-a-lifetime happening although I know they had other performances together. Thank you Ry Cooder and all the members of this performance. Ry is the King of vibrato whether playing here or with a slide.
Its many influences all come together and become great American music.
Superbe version of this song
Great backup singers..For Ry Cooder
Bobby King and Terry Evans.
Ry always plays with so.much joy. God Bless you, Ry Cooder. You are a beautiful gift from the Lord, and a precious blessing.
Best ever rendering of Goodnight Irene, even surpassing Leadbelly. It's the 3am bar feel to perfection, and the Mexican sound also just hit my spot!
And the singing is excellent! William Baker just doesn't get it
No where near as good as his version from. Chicken skin music album
Awesome singer, band and music. ❤
I met Ry Cooder at Lloyd Bagg's studio in LA back in 1979. Both Ry and I were just picking up our guitars that Lloyd had repaired so we chatted and played some songs for each other. I had no idea who he was, but after I heard him play I tried to recruit him into my band. He graciously declined. After Ry left, Lloyd played me some of his records, and I've been smitten with Ry's music ever since. The thing I love most about Ry's work is his focus on authenticity and history. With him a song is not just a tune, but rather a living artifact, which a great many souls have touched, molded, and in turn have been touched and molded by. This performance is a great example of that. He actually looks like he's sick, and his voice is so hoarse, but all of that imperfection helps to convey the message of the song - the despair and desperation, with Irene the only salvation slipping away, at the very edge of ending it all, and the final forlorn call to others to change their wicked ways and live clean, lest they suffer a similar fate.
+Saul Matas I met Ry Cooder last September in New Braunfels TX after a show at Gruene Hall. I talked graciously with all of us and signed his book of short stories among other items. A great gentleman and a world ambassador for great music everywhere
Saul Matas Enrique Granados Asturias Juan Quesada
Thank you for this great reminiscence. I’m an ole lady guitar & ukulele player and have been a fan of Ryland since the eponymous vinyl album with the Airstream trailer down to his Prodigal Son preaching “You Must Unload” in Carnegie Hall. He’s taught me not just great guitar licks & riffs but a great side dose of American history (L.A & California) in his albums and book of stories. I take solace in the portrait he casts of the southland, and his droll, humane understanding of what makes the culture of the borderland so compelling.
Wonderful comment. Wonderful thread. Thanks everyone ❤
Ry Cooder, ein Weltklasse Musiker der es verstanden hat andere Weltklasse Musiker zusammen zu bringen.
Ich bin noch kein Fan, aber ich denke es könnte bald soweit sein.
Danke Ry.😊
Ich verstehe Sie.
I've been watching this concert since I first saw it around 200K views for the whole show. One of the most quintessential concerts of those years, so gritty, so raw, so real. All the players are on full bore. However you might try to describe it, it just gets better with time.
Sensational..rhythem and
Melody is fantastic..Ry cooder is a genius singing and playing slider guitar..band I'd great
I had the pleasure of buying Flaco a drink in Kidderminster of all places. Ry and Flaco were a team made in heaven.
The drummer on the brushes is great too. Very mellow.
To say Wonderful it is not enough ... this is paradise for ears!!! Epic! Greetigs from Macedonia!
reinbert de leeuw
Wordt ik blij van !
Merry Chrismas Irene and Happy New Year ! Ry Cooder is legend and the band is fantastic with backup singers in harmony..Merry Christmas to all..r u with me?
I could listen to that piano all day. Amazing. And a nice slow waltz is always a pleasure.
Such a brilliant performance. So chilled back. I lost nearly ten minutes of my life lost in that performance. I had the beer...just lacked the Caribbean and the waves. Superb!
Like teardrops falling from his guitar,beautiful.
Glad to see Flaco was asked to be included.
The comments by is brothers in music move me mightily. this song changed the views of a 14 year old Montana kid. I acquired a 78 of Huddy Ledbetter singing Irene and playing 12 string. It changed my views in ways that I didn't realize at the time. I 1953 I boarded a bus in Memphis Tenn I found I couldn't sit in the front of the bus. To much derision I might add. I didn't realize until much later in life why I probably did it. These songs attach themselves to us in ways we don't realize. Remember I was a 15 year old . Montana hick at the time The blues grabbed me and never let go.
Best version. Thanks for posting Irene x
Epic. Hands down captured the sense of the original. And what fine musicianship all around. Wish I could have been there!
A musical feast! Thank you Ry Cooder.
Legend
American soul so so great
Ry Cooder has been blind in one eye from an accident when he was 4 years old---for your information---he is not high on drugs.
Thank you Ry Cooder for all of your wonderful music through out the years!!
I mean he surely was also high, what’s the problem
by far the best interpretation of this iconic song! thanks a lot - muchas gracias - Ry!!!
My brother played this with his blues harp at the end of my fiancés funeral on a hill in Scotland under a rainy sky .
This version of Ry Cooder just meets my emotions, thinking back to that day in April 2004.
It made a perfect final to a great but too short life of a very unique,cheerful, openminded, caring and warmhearted person, who loved life, laughter, music - and me.
r.i.p. my darling xxx never forgotten
Andrea from Berlin/Germany
This is marvelous and the rhythem is so terrific and the lyrics are magical and the band is sliding along in there tempo..Ry Cooder is excellent at getting out his say in a song and passit along..😂This is just terrific flowing out to the fans wherever they may be..don't stay out late at night..got it?
Thanks
Listening to music like this is like herbs of life. So wonderful.
Best band I've ever seen...
Aye saw Ry play twice and both times this was his last tune - both times it left me in tears :( talk about LOVING it. Thank you thank you thank you x
Wonderful!! Greetings to one and all from Big Hugh of Mundlimup in fabulous Western Australia.
Flaco makes this wonderful song really complete.
Geweldig heerlijk nummer❤
A genius at being the best..Ry Coodee is a legend ..sensational..great band..idios
Stunned .this is the greatest I've heard
Gemütlich und total klasse.Geht immer!
Tanta alma! Tanta beleza!
That is just gorgeous.
Thank you for listing the names of the players and the songs they are playing. This is a valuable record of a real good time. Van Dyke Parks needed more air time. Where is he now?😅
Hope's doing well. I think his last known works were terrifc arrangements for different artists (eg a Mexican harpist). A true and most charming gentleman. And a real genius. They don't make 'em like him anymore...
Has the right feel. Real folk, real emotion, real good.
this is world classssss !!!!
This band is incredible!!!!!!
So sweet to spend my Sunday finding GEMS.
Una interpretación magnífica, genial, extraordinaria , cada día la escucho antes de ir a dormir ! disfruto de todos los músicos y de cómo se han conjuntado para dar toda la relevancia que se merece el gran Ray Cooder. Desde Barcelona deseo que se repitan sesiones cómo ésta y que podamos verlas aquí. Y todavía no puedo entender que Ry Cooder que es un músico total , integral , creativo y genial ...me faltan adjetivos para describrilo no es más conocido aquí. Ojalà viniera a Barcelona alguna vez. :)
By far the best post Leadbelly version
Ry Cooder...Pure musician!
a very poingant song. ry and his pals know who they are. being able to understand the song and alleviate at the same time. it is nigh near impossible but if you know ry and his pals, nothing is impossible. fanks
Incredibly creative mix of cultures. I just love this.
Chanson pour ma mère qui s'appelait Irène. Que de beaux souvenirs. Renée
Fantastic!
Ry Cooder insuperabile Van Dyke Parks eccezionale Flaco Jimenez formidabile tutti gli altri strumentisti bravissimi
My Gramps used to strum this on his guitar, good mems!
Sweet piano work !
Saw the Man perform after the Little Sister release in Nijmegen (that's Halland, folks), with his band, including those great vocalists. Loved him before, still love him since, Great musician, great man. Ryand, TOP1
I agree! :)
Great performance,,,,my wifes name is Irene and she is not too well at the moment,so good night Irene and I'll see you in my dreams...Nite nite sleep tight..
So lovely and GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Ry Cooder
It wasn´t until I tried some grass that I realized the depth of this rendering.
FANTASTIC! That is all!
One of my many favourite Ry Cooder Tracks,thanks Ry,and thanks 'mbroders' for your UA-cam placement too,Murray in Scotland.
This is real fantastic brilliant.
Best version!
Looks like good old Ry had a few too many lol . I love this guy !!! Very under rated , one of the greatest of my generation :) keep on truckin Ry !...thanks for this post
This song is by Leadbelly a singer from New Orleans who was plundered and defrauded , songwriter notably of " the house of the rising sun" ...
And I agree with you!!---Beautiful!!!
Ry had ‘Legend’ stamped on him before he left the womb.
Wonderful!
Van Dyke Parks!!!
Whenever I should die, this is the song I would hear because of its sentence and most of all because of this marvelous voice and musicians, I would play and share the rithm in my coffin and everything would be allright,
The pianist is Van Dyke Parks, a graet musician too!
gbw52 Not much of a lyricist, from what I've seen and heard.
just excellent
Great!!! Thanks :-)
Amazing band xx 💋💋💋💋🌹⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️🎄🎄🎄
is this a great song or wat? man o man its very good and y do like it
Pure class!
This performance is a good example of why Ry Cooder is not the household name of, say, Neil Young or Jackson Browne. He took this song deeper than even Leadbelly, the author, did. It's great work, but I have to wonder what it was like for the audience, expecting some rock 'n roll thrills.
Helt fantastisk sang og musik
Прекрасно.Само Ry го може
sublime!
awesome. never heard of these people. my mother told me about them. why aren't they really known
This rendition is a classic
I feel fortunate to having seen this tour when they played Wolfgangs in SF. Went both nights. I have pictures to prove it! Saw Lyle Lovett last night - his gig is similiar....large band, and great vocalists in Sir Harry, Sweet Pea, and Willie Green Jr.
I have only one word: FABOULUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Listen also to the music from Flaco Jiminez
Was that Flaco Jimenez on the accordion? He's a Rio Grande Valley institution. A national treasure, too!
Yes! Flacco the Man
Yes,El Paso...
cant beat these
........simply great.
Ry...the Master at work!!
Flaco CANT/COULDN'T been mistaken...
His own rhythm of vibrato, his own speed on the keys..., couldn't been mistaken, only FLACO did songs his way. 💯 👍
Has Flaco died?
@@yianpap6093 I don't think.
Don`t forget George Bohannon ,Seve Douglas, Jorge Calderon, Miguel Cruz and those backup singers, including,BOBBY KING.
I miss Terry Evans. A fantastic voice.
💖💖💖
fantastyczny zespół muzyków, świetna gitara Ry Coodera, można słuchać bez końca