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Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm (Warner Bros.)

Dave DiMartino, Musician, January 1988

SO RY COODER gives us his first non-soundtrack album in five years, and it's great, rock-solid, a worthy companion to John Hiatt's Bring the Family, on which he and his guitar burned mightily. All very good things indeed. But what do they mean?

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