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Chavez Ravine
by Ry Cooder
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Overall Rating:
3.2615
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3173
Chavez Ravine Rank 3 Reviews
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The GuardianIt's a very clever album, and at times easier to admire than to simply enjoy because there is so much going on. ...more
musicOMH.comThough it might not be as rewarding a listening experience as Cooder's Cuban albums, this is still a set that demands repeated hearing, and I doubt there'll be another record as lovingly crafted as this all year. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)Chávez Ravine never romanticizes its subject. It simply makes it seem unnatural that any place where people lived, dreamed, died, and formed a neighborhood could be made to disappear. ...more
UncutAfter a decade of travels that have taken him from Timbuktu to Cuba, Ry Cooder has come home to shine a light on a shameful episode in LA’s civic history. For this son of white middle-class Santa Monica, the 1950 razing of Chicano enclave Chávez ...more
ShakingThrough.netChávez Ravine suffers from an uneven flow due to the varying quality of the material. ...more
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Stylus MagazineChavez Ravine drags occasionally, the result of too many serious narratives, but the stories that do work are jaw-droppingly simple and painfully familiar. ...more
Amazon.comThe result is an CD that sounds like it's aspiring to be something far more ambitious: a DVD, a theatrical production, even a time machine. ...more
Rolling StoneCooder has delivered a remarkable song cycle that tells the story -- a sort of brilliant and flavorful film-noir history lesson that samples the past freely. ...more
Rolling StoneHaving brought vintage Cuban music to the ears of millions in the U.S. with 1997'sBuena Vista Social Cluband its spinoffs, Ry Cooder has made a sort of homecoming withChavez Ravine. Today, Chavez Ravine is known as the home of the Los Angeles ...more
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