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Chavez Ravine

by Ry Cooder

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2005

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Overall Rating: 3.2615 Chavez Ravine is ranked overall as 3.2615 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3173 Chavez Ravine has an avg. critic score of 3.3173 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

Ry Cooder's latest musical reclamation project, Chávez Ravine , conjures up the spirit of a lost Latino neighborhood in East Los Angeles that was eventually razed to build Dodger Stadium. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

A ghostly meditation on the culture of forgetting

All Music Guide

Chavez Ravine is easily the most ambitious thing in Cooder's catalog, and it just may be the grand opus of his career. ...more

Stylus Magazine

After spending the last several years recording and collaborating with newly liberated Cuban musicians, eclectic guitarist Ry Cooder is back withChavez Ravine, his first official solo record since 1987. ...more

Stylus Magazine

Chavez Ravine drags occasionally, the result of too many serious narratives, but the stories that do work are jaw-droppingly simple and painfully familiar. ...more

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Neumu.net

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....read the complete review at Neumu.net

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Q Magazine

A self-contained...read the complete review at Q Magazine

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musicOMH.com

Ry Cooder means different things to different people. Some hang on every pull of his slide guitar, immersed in the blues stylings his music is so deeply immersed in; others go for the lazily evocative scores for movies likeThe Long RidersandParis, Texas;...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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