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Paradise and Lunch - Wikipedia

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Paradise and Lunch

Studio album by

Ry Cooder

Released

June 1974

Studio

Warner Brothers Studios, North Hollywood, CA and
The Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA

Genre

Roots rock, blues, folk, Americana

Length

36:51

Label

Reprise

Producer

Russ Titelman, Lenny Waronker

Ry Cooder chronology

Boomer's Story
(1972)

Paradise and Lunch
(1974)

Chicken Skin Music
(1976)

Music video

Tattler on YouTube

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−^[2]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)^[3]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide	^[4]
Tom Hull	B+^[5]

Paradise and Lunch is the fourth album by roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released on June 8, 1974 on Reprise Records.^[6]^[7] The album is composed of cover versions of jazz, blues and roots standards and obscurities recorded at the Warner Brothers Studios.^[6] The final track, "Ditty Wah Ditty," showcases a duet between Cooder and jazz pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines.^[8] It was produced by Russ Titelman and Lenny Waronker.^[9] The album reached #167 on the Billboard 200.^[10]

The album also includes Cooder's updated arrangement of bluesman Washington Phillips' "The Tattler" that stands out for its guitar playing.^[11] It was subsequently covered by Linda Ronstadt on her 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind and by David Soul on his 1977 album Playing To An Audience of One.^[12]

In 1990 the album was released on CD,^[13] while a remastered version appeared in 2007.^[14] It was newly remastered from the original master tapes for a high-resolution SACD in 2017.^[15]

Track listing

Side One

"Tamp 'Em Up Solid" (Traditional) – 3:19
"Tattler" (Washington Phillips, Ry Cooder, Russ Titelman) – 4:14
"Married Man's a Fool" (Blind Willie McTell) – 3:10
"Jesus on the Mainline" (Traditional) – 4:09
"It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack) – 4:49

Side Two

"Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin' Good" (Sidney Bailey, J. B. Lenoir, Jim Dickinson) (medley) – 4:25
"If Walls Could Talk" (Bobby Miller) – 3:12
"Mexican Divorce" (Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard) – 3:51
"Ditty Wah Ditty" (Arthur Blake) – 5:42

Personnel

Ry Cooder - guitars, mandolin, vocals
Milt Holland – drums, percussion
Jim Keltner – drums
Russ Titelman, Chris Ethridge – electric bass
Ronnie Barron – piano, organ
Red Callender, John Duke – bass
Plas Johnson – alto saxophone
Oscar Brashear – cornet
Bobby King, Gene Mumford, Bill Johnson, George McCurn, Walter Cook, Richard Jones, Russ Titelman, Karl Russell – voices
Earl Hines - piano on "Ditty Wah Ditty"^[16]
George Bohanon - horn arrangement
Nick DeCaro - string arrangement

Technical

Russ Titelman, Lenny Waronker - production
Judy Maizel, Trudy Portch - production coordination
Lee Herschberg - engineer, mixing
Bobby Hata, John Neal - assistant engineer
Susan Titelman (Ry Cooder's wife and Russ Titelman's sister) – cover paintings and photography

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Peak
1974	Billboard Top LPs & Tape	167

References

^ Allmusic review
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007.
^ Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (Editors). The Rolling Stone Record Guide, 1st edition, Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1979, p. 84/598.
^ Hull, Tom. "Ry Cooder". Tom Hull - on the Web. Retrieved May 26, 2024 – via tomhull.com.
^ ^a ^b "Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch (original)". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ "Ry Cooder Biography". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone Magazine. Archived from the original on February 16, 2012. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ Allmusic.com review by Brett Hartenbach
^ Lefsetz, Bob. "Welcome To My World - "Ry Cooder Primer"". rhino.com. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1974-06-22). Billboard Magazine (print). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 62. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ "Deep Cuts: Ry Cooder's Funky Fingerstyle". www.premierguitar.com. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ Moon, Tom (2008). "Paradise and Lunch | 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die". www.1000recordings.com. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ "Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch (CD release)". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ "Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch (remaster)". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
^ "Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch (Hybrid Super Audio CD release)". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
^ Moon, Tom (August 28, 2008). 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. Workman Publishing. ISBN 978-0761-1538-56 – via Google Books.

v t e Ry Cooder
Solo albums	Ry Cooder (1970) Into the Purple Valley (1972) Boomer's Story (1972) Paradise and Lunch (1974) Chicken Skin Music (1976) Show Time (1977) Jazz (1978) Bop Till You Drop (1979) Borderline (1980) The Slide Area (1982) Get Rhythm (1987) Chávez Ravine (2005) My Name Is Buddy (2007) I, Flathead (2008) Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011) Election Special (2012) The Prodigal Son (2018)
Collaborative albums	Jamming with Edward! (1972) Little Village (1992) A Meeting by the River (1993) Talking Timbuktu (1994) Buena Vista Social Club (1997) Mambo Sinuendo (2003) Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (2008) San Patricio (2010) Live in San Francisco (2013)
Soundtrack albums	Performance (1970) The Long Riders (1980) Southern Comfort (1981) The Border (1982) Streets of Fire (1984) Paris, Texas (1985) Music from Alamo Bay (1985) Blue City (1986) Crossroads (1986) Johnny Handsome (1989) Trespass (1993) Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) Last Man Standing (1996) The End of Violence (1997) Primary Colors (1998) My Blueberry Nights (2007)

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