Ry Cooder, Bobby King - Chain Gang

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank filmed at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Exquisite singing by Bobby King. Remember to check out "I'm a pilgrim" if you like Bobby King's voice with Ry Cooders guitar - watch?v=Ie1Dq5-cYgY

Comment from MrBillindallas:
Concert was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the dance floor.

Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:

3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):

Showtime
Little Sister
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
Me and Frank
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus on The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Why Dont You Try Me?
Down In The Boondocks
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
encores:
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene

3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):

Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Down In Mississippi
instrumental
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene

Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone

Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass

Category:

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• Cooder
• Jim
• Keltner
• Terry
• Evans
• Bobby
• King
• Willie
• Green

[kogi81]

DONT GET ME WRONG I LOVE RY COODER'S GUITAR !1 BUT I'M HERE FOR MR. BOBBY FUCKING KING !!

[herschelzboy]

Probably one of the best performances outside of Sam Cooke. I love the slow beat. It's good when a performer can make a song his own and separate himself from the original.

[drewwalker59]

me too kogi81 ;)



[JustJake57]

@TubeMistake Don't know why it wasn't released, but your conjecture is irrelevant. Relax and if he was, are you taking names Mother Theresa?

[TubeMistake]

Never released cuz? Is Ry high?

[henibartlett]

FUUUK I LOVE YOU RY COODER !!! THIS is the BEST guitar intro ive ever KNOWN !!! MEAAAAAN MACHINE !!!!!! :)

[MultiJaylea]

Jim Keltner Drummie The Best

[rogerrrubin]

@SimplyPhalin 90,000 in one year ain't too bad, but by now there should be a million. But everybody is watching LMFAO, which is fine but not mine.

[RogerHWerner]

I first went to the Catalyst in 1974...would play chess all afternoon while nursing a Coke.There was a small stage where local musicians could set up and play for what they could collect by passing the hat.The place changed when the owners turned it into a major music venue after 1980.Old timers like myself think it lost its charm.The place was wrecked in Loma Prieta.It was rebuilt and remains a major venue.Santa Cruz is still a very special place where the 1960s attitude never really ended.