The Border

Soundtrack to The Border - one of Ry's finest. After working and recording in the 1960s with Taj Mahal, Captain Beefheart's magic band and the Rolling Stones, guitarist Ry Cooder went on to craft a series of 'patchwork of americana' albums including such seminal and stirring screen soundtracks as the Long Riders, Paris Texas and Crossroads. Displaying a voracious eclecticism that eventually took him light-years from his traditionalist roots, and the kind of slide-guitar playing that could make a lizard crawl down a wall, cooder turned out a series of dazzling 1980s film soundtracks - including 'the border' (1982).

Tracks: Earthquake / Across The Borderline / Maria / Texas Bop / Highway / Palomita / Rio Grande / Too Late / No Quiero / Skin Game / El Scorcho / Building Fires / Nino