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Ry Cooder recommendation...

My knowledge of his work has never been more than his participation on Safe As Milk...but I recently heard a performance at some folk festival from 1979 on the radio & it was just him playing a slide guitar.
Can anyone recommend an album of the same stripped back style ? 

Thanks.
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infection OP
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Yes indeed he was - 'Safe As Milk' - great album. 
Although the best Beefheart album is Doc At The Radar Station. 
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Yup, that's a good one infection. I think it was on the tour in support of that album that I saw him live in '78, at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Nobody even remotely like him, though Tom Waits tries ;-).
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"Jazz, Bop until you Drop are both good. Buena Vista Social Club is Fantastic."

Those are three I'm familiar with, love Jazz and Buena Vista Social club. Thanks to all for other Ry albums to check out, I certainly will!
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@bdp24  I'm jealous you saw Don & co on that tour! How was it?
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When you hear the accordion on any of Ry Cooder's songs it is Flaco Jiménez, the absolute master of that instrument and one of Ry's most important collaborators. He doesn't get nearly the recognition he deserves. 
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