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Ry Cooder: The Slide Area (Warner Bros.)/The Border – Original Soundtrack (MCA)

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982

THE MORE things remain the same, the more they change: after more than a decade of recording as a featured artist, Ry Cooder has finally forgotten himself sufficiently to record and release something which could only be described as Just Another Ry Cooder Album.

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