Customer Reviews
I love this album - By: Mr. David Alexander, 27 Aug 2008 
I could be wrong butI get the impression that Mr Cooder has been listening to a lot of Tom Waits recently & that is no bad thing. Great album both musically & lyrically, could have done with some more of his trademark slide guitar but no complaints really.
What! - By: sound artist, 11 Jul 2008 I had to write a few words to offer a counter view to the guy who shows a complete lack of creative understanding of this album's raison d'etre. As for the comment about it being for, 'nostalgic, over 60's American males', well if you liked the recent Coen Bros movie, 'No Country for Old Men' then you'll understand the sentiments expressed through this music.
This is a masterpiece of understatement & contains some all time classics. 'Can I Smokein Here' & 'Flathead One More Time' are condensed movies that create their own quirky mis-en-scene with believable, fleshed out characters, lamenting the onset of old age & the changes that are a comin'. There is an air of hedonistic abandon & black humourin some tracks, desperation & melancholyin others, yet all are born out of the eclectic musical styles of 20thC American - that includes Latino too - popular music. A language that Ry Cooder is an honorary professor of. Buy it & be moved! In the words of the great man himself: "What a world: smile today, cry tomorrow".
Disappointed - By: The Infrequent Buyer, 26 Jun 2008 
After a great reviewin The S. Times, I am disappointed. I guess it's aimed at the 60+ year old American male whose memories will be stirred - but not mine.
The accompanying book is an interesting odd-ball but not enough to warrant buying the CD.
