Ry Cooder – Boomer's Story Reprise Records – MS 2117 1972 Promo LP EX/EX Rare
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Ry Cooder – Boomer's Story Label: Reprise Records – MS 2117 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Rock, Blues Style: Blues Rock, Country Rock A1 Boomer's Story 4:13 A2 Cherry Ball Blues 4:10 A3 Crow Black Chicken 2:14 A4 Ax Sweet Mama 4:23 A5 Maria Elena 4:30 B1 Dark End Of The Street 3:25 B2 Rally 'Round The Flag 3:34 B3 Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer 3:00 B4 President Kennedy 4:39 B5 Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man 4:30 Recorded At – Amigo Studios Recorded At – Ardent Studios Recorded At – Muscle Shoals Sound Studios Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Bass – Tommy McClure Clarinet – Charles Lawing Drums – Jim Keltner, Roger Hawkins Guitar, Vocals – Sleepy John Estes (tracks: B4) Harmonica – Gene Finney Horns – George Bohanon Percussion – Milt Holland Piano – Randy Newman (tracks: B2) Piano, Bass – Jim Dickinson Producer – Jim Dickinson, Lenny Waronker
Boomer's Story is the third studio album by American roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released in 1972.
Track listing Side one "Boomer's Story" (listed as "Traditional," actually Carson Robison) – 4:13 "Cherry Ball Blues" (instrumental) (Skip James) – 4:10 "Crow Black Chicken" (Lawrence Wilson) – 2:14 "Ax Sweet Mama" (Sleepy John Estes) – 4:23 "Maria Elena" (instrumental) (Bob Russell, Lorenzo Barcelata) – 4:30 Side two "The Dark End of the Street" (instrumental) (Dan Penn, Chips Moman) – 3:25 "Rally 'Round the Flag" (George F. Root) – 3:34 "Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer" (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) – 3:00 "President Kennedy" (Sleepy John Estes) – 4:39 "Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man" (Traditional) – 4:30 Notes The title track was previously recorded as "The Railroad Boomer"[2] by Bud Billings (aka Frank Luther) and Carson Robison in a performance recorded at the studio at Liederkranz Hall in New York on September 9, 1929 (Victor V-40139).[3][4] Although it is credited on Cooder's album as "traditional," Robison was awarded a copyright and the song "can't be shown to have circulated in oral tradition."[5] Gene Autry recorded it in December of the same year.[6] In the 1930s the song was recorded for Decca Records by the Rice Brothers' Gang,[7][8] in 1939 by Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys, in 1941 by Riley Puckett for RCA, and in the 1950s by Cisco Houston (as "The Rambler") and by the New Lost City Ramblers, who included Cooder's guitar teacher Tom Paley.
Personnel Ry Cooder - guitars, mandolin, bottleneck guitar, vocals Tommy McClure - bass Charles Lawing - clarinet Jim Keltner, Roger Hawkins - drums Sleepy John Estes - guitar and vocals on "President Kennedy" (recorded in Collierville, Tennessee) Gene Finney - harmonica George Bohanon - horns Milt Holland - percussion Randy Newman - piano on "Rally 'Round the Flag" Jim Dickinson - piano, bass, backing vocals Dan Penn - backing vocals Technical Judy Maizel - production assistant Jerry Masters, John Fry, Lee Herschberg, Richard Rosebrough - engineer Susan Titelman - photography
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