Ry Cooder - 3rd Base, Dodger Stadium

Ry Cooder - 3rd Base, Dodger Stadium, from Chávez Ravine (Nonesuch 2005)

Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder is a concept album and historical album by Ry Cooder which tells the story of Chávez Ravine, a Mexican-American community demolished in the 1950s in order to build public housing. The housing was never built. Ultimately the Brooklyn Dodgers built a stadium on the site as part of their move to Los Angeles. Chávez Ravine received a Grammy nomination for "Best Contemporary Folk Album" in 2006.

• "3rd Base, Dodger Stadium" (Ry Cooder, William Garcia, Joe Kevany) - 5:45
• Bla Pahinui - vocal, guitar, ukulele
• Ry Cooder - guitar
• Joachim Cooder - drums
• Mike Elizondo - bass
• Joe Rotondi - piano
• Gil Bernal - tenor sax
• Mike Bolger - trumpet, valve trombone
• Ledward Kaapana - guitar

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[m4nuby]

E' un album stupendo e questa è la canzone più bella insieme a Corrido de Boxeo

[chrstman]

This is one of my favorite songs from this album. Thanks for uploading this.

[zantron]

Sung by Bla Pahinui.

[jessied44]

The whole album is wonderful as it tells the story of the Hispanic community in Los Angeles that was uprooted in order to build Dodger Stadium at Chaves Ravine.  As written, sung and played by Ry Cooder, it packs an emotional wallop of the longing for home by the man from 3rd Base Dodger Stadium.