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Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder
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86 out of 100

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8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings

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  • Summary: The guitarist's latest is a concept album about the residents of 1940's Chavez Ravine, a Mexican-American community near downtown Los Angeles that was famously bulldozed to make way for Dodger Stadium.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Neumu.net
    95
    Chávez Ravine works because, ultimately, it isn't a history lesson or museum piece. It's the sound of musicians, now on the periphery, playing and singing the music they love.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    A ghostly meditation on the culture of forgetting. [8 Jul 2005, p.68]
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  3. All Music Guide
    90
    Chavez Ravine is easily the most ambitious thing in Cooder's catalog, and it just may be the grand opus of his career.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
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  1. BillW
    10
    Cooder does not disappoint.....great music and a great story.....one of the best "unknown" guitar composer and picker going
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  2. Hein
    10
    Masterpiece great concept-album!
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  3. DanielG
    4
    I'm interested to know what this sudden interest in Chavez Ravine (the place) came from, not that this story doesn't deserve the attention it's getting. First the photo book published by Chronicle Books, then the play by Culture Clash and now, the album by Ry Cooder. I was impressed with the collection of talent used for the production of this album, but hugely dissappointed when I bought it and took a listen, it's an overrated album and downright obnoxious sometimes. I agree with David M, the worst tracks are his compostions. Good intentions, bad music...… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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