Get Rhythm (album)

Get Rhythm is a studio album by Ry Cooder.[4] It was released in 1987.[5]

Get Rhythm
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released	November 1987
Recorded	Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles
Genre	Roots rock [1]
Length	40:43
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology
The Slide Area (1982) Get Rhythm (1987) Chávez Ravine (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	B+[3]

Track listing

1. "Get Rhythm" (Johnny Cash)
2. "Low Commotion" (Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner)
3. "Going Back to Okinawa" (Ry Cooder)
4. "Thirteen Question Method" (Chuck Berry)
5. "Women Will Rule the World" (Raymond Quevedo)
6. "All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell)
7. "I Can Tell by the Way You Smell" (Walter Davis)
8. "Across the Borderline" (Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, John Hiatt)
9. "Let's Have a Ball" (Alden Bunn)

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak
1987	Australian (Kent Music Report)	29[6]

Personnel

• Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals
• Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
• Flaco Jiménez - accordion
• Steve Douglas - saxophone
• Jorge Calderón - bass guitar
• Buell Neidlinger - acoustic bass on 2, 6, 8
• Jim Keltner - drums
• Miguel Cruz - percussion
• Bobby King, Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, Willie Greene, Jr. - background vocals
• Larry Blackmon - vocals on "All Shook Up"
• Harry Dean Stanton - vocals on "Across the Borderline"

References

1. "Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder". AllMusic.
2. "Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Ry Cooder". www.robertchristgau.com.
4. "Strung Along". August 12, 2008 – via www.newyorker.com.
5. "RY COODER CHARTS HIS OWN COURSE". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1987.
6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 73. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.