Chicken Skin Music LP fg_Catalog Number_CD 101159 Back Roads and Abandoned Motels

Back Roads and Abandoned Motels expands the group’s repertoire with brand-new recordings of songs that frontman Gary Louris has co-written with other acts

In September last year

many armed and muscular monster

He has these sparks of melodies

Human cattle like a beef avalanche

Chicken Skin Music LP fg_Catalog Number_CD 101159 Back Roads and Abandoned MotelsThe title of Ry Cooder's Chicken Skin Music Hawaiian slang for goosebumps serves as a direct, simple description of the album's emotional appeal. But it barely scratches the surface of a 1976 effort that triggered an interest in "world music" a decade before the term became commonplace and a genre into and of itself. Part of a series of inimitable mid 1970s records on which Cooder ignored traditional boundaries and instigated lasting cross cultural