Ry Cooder - Goodnight Irene

[@murph3001]

One of the great American songs in popular music ever !

[@DIANA-rv7zn]

Jeah is Right!

[@Muziekgenot]

So warming, comforting, enchanting! Balm for the soul. Am I the only one who needs this every day?

[@d.mcfadden7759]

no you're not!!

[@c-record]

man... that accordion brings it all together. Viva El Flaco!

[@utetrahemicon]

An instrument that breaths life into any song.

[@guesswho111]

I've always loved Flacco and his accordion.

[@aloisemason3972]

Sing on legend..The one and only Ry Cooder..great guitar player..listening still in 2022..got it..phenomenal..great band

[@johnmetzger8856]

Ry and Flacco with a marvelous group backing them. I sway in my dreams to this treasure.

[@TheOBOM]

What touches me most about this guy, this Ry Cooder; is how he is always so willing to let other musicians take the lead, let them fully express themselves, notwithstanding his own greatness and musicianship! This guy is a real mentor and performer!

[@aloisemason3972]

Great backup singers..For Ry Cooder

[@christophgullich3050]

Bobby King and Terry Evans.

[@rolfsautter4186]

Superbe version of this song

[@SuperOlds88]

Only Ry Cooder had the foresight to bring all these great musicians together. This is a once-in-a-lifetime happening although I know they had other performances together. Thank you Ry Cooder and all the members of this performance. Ry is the King of vibrato whether playing here or with a slide.

[@murph3001]

Its many influences all come together and become great American music.

[@joannebrebes5003]

Ry always plays with so.much joy. God Bless you, Ry Cooder. You are a beautiful gift from the Lord, and a precious blessing.

[@simonward1598]

I had the pleasure of buying Flaco a drink in Kidderminster of all places. Ry and Flaco were a team made in heaven.

[@billsanders5067]

Glad to see Flaco was asked to be included.

[@SauliusMatas1]

I met Ry Cooder at Lloyd Bagg's studio in LA back in 1979. Both Ry and I were just picking up our guitars that Lloyd had repaired so we chatted and played some songs for each other. I had no idea who he was, but after I heard him play I tried to recruit him into my band. He graciously declined. After Ry left, Lloyd played me some of his records, and I've been smitten with Ry's music ever since. The thing I love most about Ry's work is his focus on authenticity and history. With him a song is not just a tune, but rather a living artifact, which a great many souls have touched, molded, and in turn have been touched and molded by. This performance is a great example of that. He actually looks like he's sick, and his voice is so hoarse, but all of that imperfection helps to convey the message of the song - the despair and desperation, with Irene the only salvation slipping away, at the very edge of ending it all, and the final forlorn call to others to change their wicked ways and live clean, lest they suffer a similar fate.

[@nunesverse]

+Saul Matas I met Ry Cooder last September in New Braunfels TX after a show at Gruene Hall. I talked graciously with all of us and signed his book of short stories among other items. A great gentleman and a world ambassador for great music everywhere

[@louispeeters1377]

Saul Matas Enrique Granados Asturias Juan Quesada

[@emotubetta]

Thank you for this great reminiscence. I’m an ole lady guitar & ukulele player and have been a fan of Ryland since the eponymous vinyl album with the Airstream trailer down to his Prodigal Son preaching “You Must Unload” in Carnegie Hall. He’s taught me not just great guitar licks & riffs but a great side dose of American history (L.A & California) in his albums and book of stories. I take solace in the portrait he casts of the southland, and his droll, humane understanding of what makes the culture of the borderland so compelling.

[@moragmacgregor6792]

Wonderful comment. Wonderful thread. Thanks everyone ❤

[@utetrahemicon]

The drummer on the brushes is great too. Very mellow.

[@aloisemason3972]

Sensational..rhythem and Melody is fantastic..Ry cooder is a genius singing and playing slider guitar..band I'd great

[@jamesmallet623]

Best ever rendering of Goodnight Irene, even surpassing Leadbelly. It's the 3am bar feel to perfection, and the Mexican sound also just hit my spot!

[@jamesmallet623]

And the singing is excellent! William Baker just doesn't get it

[@ryreinhardt]

No where near as good as his version from. Chicken skin music album

[@mscosmiccat]

I could listen to that piano all day. Amazing. And a nice slow waltz is always a pleasure.

[@liviaalexander]

Ry Cooder has been blind in one eye from an accident when he was 4 years old---for your information---he is not high on drugs. Thank you Ry Cooder for all of your wonderful music through out the years!!

[@astonefalling-3983]

I mean he surely was also high, what’s the problem

[@reinhardneef4074]

Ry Cooder, ein Weltklasse Musiker der es verstanden hat andere Weltklasse Musiker zusammen zu bringen. Ich bin noch kein Fan, aber ich denke es könnte bald soweit sein. Danke Ry.😊

[@DIANA-rv7zn]

Ich verstehe Sie.

[@robertdunn9329]

I've been watching this concert since I first saw it around 200K views for the whole show. One of the most quintessential concerts of those years, so gritty, so raw, so real. All the players are on full bore. However you might try to describe it, it just gets better with time.

[@a29151]

Like teardrops falling from his guitar,beautiful.

[@sasodcfred]

To say Wonderful it is not enough ... this is paradise for ears!!! Epic! Greetigs from Macedonia!

[@blueykoolhaas3130]

reinbert de leeuw

[@greggyeggy1]

Such a brilliant performance. So chilled back. I lost nearly ten minutes of my life lost in that performance. I had the beer...just lacked the Caribbean and the waves. Superb!

[@irenet4629]

Awesome singer, band and music. ❤

[@vee3012]

My brother played this with his blues harp at the end of my fiancés funeral on a hill in Scotland under a rainy sky . This version of Ry Cooder just meets my emotions, thinking back to that day in April 2004. It made a perfect final to a great but too short life of a very unique,cheerful, openminded, caring and warmhearted person, who loved life, laughter, music - and me. r.i.p. my darling xxx never forgotten Andrea from Berlin/Germany

[@aloisemason3044]

Merry Chrismas Irene and Happy New Year ! Ry Cooder is legend and the band is fantastic with backup singers in harmony..Merry Christmas to all..r u with me?

[@correiacarlosmanuel]

Tanta alma! Tanta beleza!

[@michaelbarbosa5700]

A musical feast! Thank you Ry Cooder.

[@bluesman33]

The comments by is brothers in music move me mightily. this song changed the views of a 14 year old Montana kid. I acquired a 78 of Huddy Ledbetter singing Irene and playing 12 string. It changed my views in ways that I didn't realize at the time. I 1953 I boarded a bus in Memphis Tenn I found I couldn't sit in the front of the bus. To much derision I might add. I didn't realize until much later in life why I probably did it. These songs attach themselves to us in ways we don't realize. Remember I was a 15 year old . Montana hick at the time The blues grabbed me and never let go.

[@aloisemason3044]

A genius at being the best..Ry Coodee is a legend ..sensational..great band..idios

[@murph3001]

American soul so so great

[@fistofate]

Best band I've ever seen...

[@irenegibbons8462]

Best version. Thanks for posting Irene x

[@MegaCatalano]

by far the best interpretation of this iconic song! thanks a lot - muchas gracias - Ry!!!

[@2wattsout]

Epic. Hands down captured the sense of the original. And what fine musicianship all around. Wish I could have been there!

[@janingard]

Listening to music like this is like herbs of life. So wonderful.

[@huwking-jones4957]

Legend

[@letsif]

Has the right feel. Real folk, real emotion, real good.

[@beautifulsenga]

Aye saw Ry play twice and both times this was his last tune - both times it left me in tears :( talk about LOVING it. Thank you thank you thank you x

[@kenedal1]

Stunned .this is the greatest I've heard

[@Else66]

Flaco makes this wonderful song really complete.

[@victordibella1]

Ry Cooder...Pure musician!

[@memphisrecords7073]

This band is incredible!!!!!!

[@alpat7948]

Ry Cooder insuperabile Van Dyke Parks eccezionale Flaco Jimenez formidabile tutti gli altri strumentisti bravissimi

[@uncleshamus3451]

This is beautiful

[@larrymclarnon-pd8xf]

That is just gorgeous.

[@collette333]

So sweet to spend my Sunday finding GEMS.

[@karelappeldoorn7391]

Wordt ik blij van !

[@kennethmargo8069]

By far the best post Leadbelly version

[@Jarrahnut]

Wonderful!! Greetings to one and all from Big Hugh of Mundlimup in fabulous Western Australia.

[@aloisemason3044]

This is marvelous and the rhythem is so terrific and the lyrics are magical and the band is sliding along in there tempo..Ry Cooder is excellent at getting out his say in a song and passit along..😂This is just terrific flowing out to the fans wherever they may be..don't stay out late at night..got it?

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

Ry had ‘Legend’ stamped on him before he left the womb.

[@CocaColaMan75]

this is world classssss !!!!

[@herbertdubielzek1088]

Gemütlich und total klasse.Geht immer!

[@kenichol]

Incredibly creative mix of cultures. I just love this.

[@alanski2005]

Fantastic!

[@Philc231]

Thanks

[@wolfkin71]

Looks like good old Ry had a few too many lol . I love this guy !!! Very under rated , one of the greatest of my generation :) keep on truckin Ry !...thanks for this post

[@digitraxanr]

Thank you for listing the names of the players and the songs they are playing. This is a valuable record of a real good time. Van Dyke Parks needed more air time. Where is he now?😅

[@pablos.alonso7711]

Hope's doing well. I think his last known works were terrifc arrangements for different artists (eg a Mexican harpist). A true and most charming gentleman. And a real genius. They don't make 'em like him anymore...

[@liviaalexander]

And I agree with you!!---Beautiful!!!

[@joeserin9593]

FANTASTIC! That is all!

[@LydiaKoliloedjoer47]

So lovely and GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Ry Cooder

[@paulafugate3210]

My Gramps used to strum this on his guitar, good mems!

[@showaddy11]

a very poingant song. ry and his pals know who they are. being able to understand the song and alleviate at the same time. it is nigh near impossible but if you know ry and his pals, nothing is impossible. fanks

[@reneechamberland8875]

Chanson pour ma mère qui s'appelait Irène. Que de beaux souvenirs. Renée

[@emmasteffensen6795]

Helt fantastisk sang og musik

[@dinantubeyou]

Best version!

[@Wuelli55]

Whenever I should die, this is the song I would hear because of its sentence and most of all because of this marvelous voice and musicians, I would play and share the rithm in my coffin and everything would be allright,

[@rinocelant77]

This song is by Leadbelly a singer from New Orleans who was plundered and defrauded , songwriter notably of " the house of the rising sun" ...

[@TonyWhite22351]

Sweet piano work !

[@dougallsdiscs]

One of my many favourite Ry Cooder Tracks,thanks Ry,and thanks 'mbroders' for your KZbin placement too,Murray in Scotland.

[@richierich291266]

Pure class!

[@kenedal1]

This rendition is a classic

[@natacha45]

Wonderful!

[@johannbogason1662]

It wasn´t until I tried some grass that I realized the depth of this rendering.

[@trudyadriaans]

Geweldig heerlijk nummer❤

[@gbw52]

The pianist is Van Dyke Parks, a graet musician too!

[@brucec43]

gbw52 Not much of a lyricist, from what I've seen and heard.

[@MrBluey1]

Great performance,,,,my wifes name is Irene and she is not too well at the moment,so good night Irene and I'll see you in my dreams...Nite nite sleep tight..

[@coravisser727]

This is real fantastic brilliant.

[@hansvandiejie]

Saw the Man perform after the Little Sister release in Nijmegen (that's Halland, folks), with his band, including those great vocalists. Loved him before, still love him since, Great musician, great man. Ryand, TOP1

[@GGT950]

I agree! :)

[@blavamar]

Una interpretación magnífica, genial, extraordinaria , cada día la escucho antes de ir a dormir ! disfruto de todos los músicos y de cómo se han conjuntado para dar toda la relevancia que se merece el gran Ray Cooder. Desde Barcelona deseo que se repitan sesiones cómo ésta y que podamos verlas aquí. Y todavía no puedo entender que Ry Cooder que es un músico total , integral , creativo y genial ...me faltan adjetivos para describrilo no es más conocido aquí. Ojalà viniera a Barcelona alguna vez. :)

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

just excellent

[@Antonnob]

Flaco my HERO!!

[@jackmorris4821]

Ry...the Master at work!!

[@truegangsteroflove]

This performance is a good example of why Ry Cooder is not the household name of, say, Neil Young or Jackson Browne. He took this song deeper than even Leadbelly, the author, did. It's great work, but I have to wonder what it was like for the audience, expecting some rock 'n roll thrills.

[@rolfhaugen9827]

I miss Terry Evans. A fantastic voice.

[@liambui]

sublime!

[@MultiJaylea]

Don`t forget George Bohannon ,Seve Douglas, Jorge Calderon, Miguel Cruz and those backup singers, including,BOBBY KING.

[@jacquelineengels6107]

Amazing band xx 💋💋💋💋🌹⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️🎄🎄🎄

[@menno63de]

........simply great.

[@alexeynartov2909]

Замечательно ! Всё выкладываются по полной и никто не перетягивает одеяло на себя . Нечасто так бывает .

[@barbaraplo3]

fantastyczny zespół muzyków, świetna gitara Ry Coodera, można słuchać bez końca

[@tesore]

Great!!! Thanks :-)

[@protbast]

what a guitarpliaier

[@frankaguilar856]

FLACO JIMÉNEZ IS ICONIC .. HE PLAYED WITH MANY TOP MUSICIANS .. BLUESMEN INCLUDED .. JACKSON BROWN, BONNIE RAITT, AND LOS LOBOS TO NAME A FEW .. REST IN PEACE ..

[@francoisebeylie2923]

Flaco Jiménez Is 85 years old and he is still alive.

[@rpdugoni]

I feel fortunate to having seen this tour when they played Wolfgangs in SF. Went both nights. I have pictures to prove it! Saw Lyle Lovett last night - his gig is similiar....large band, and great vocalists in Sir Harry, Sweet Pea, and Willie Green Jr.

[@Murgertroy]

awesome. never heard of these people. my mother told me about them. why aren't they really known

[@frankaguilar856]

FLACO JIMÉNEZ IS SO VERSATIL WITH ANY GENRE OF MUSIC .. ROCK, FOLK BALLADS, BLUES MARIACHI, NAME IT AND HE PROBABLY KNOWS IT, OR WOULD IMPROVISE IT .. HE ACTUALLY TAUGHT DAVID HIDALGO (LOS LOBOS), A FEW LICKS AND PLAYED WELL INTO HIS LAST DAYS .. RIP FLACO ..♥️🕊✝️

[@francoisebeylie2923]

Flaco Jiménez is not dead !

[@peskyfervid6515]

The story goes that Leadbelly, during one of his stays in prison, used to sing this to the warden's wife in the evening when she would come out to tend her garden.