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Ry Cooder: Into The Purple Valley (Reprise)

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972

THE COVER of Ry Cooder's second album features the guitarist and his lady posed in and out of a mid-Forties model Dodge convertible. It's straight out of Robert Mitchum and Build My Gallows High.

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