Ry Cooder: I, Flathead (Nonesuch)
Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2008
Final instalment of Cooder's "trilogy" time-traveling back to '40's/'50s California, here exploring a lost world of steel guitarists and salt-flat drag racers. Comes complete with Cooder's own 53-page novella.
Total word count of piece: 1037