Cooder’s 9th studio solo LP, with John Hiatt, Jim Keltner, Jesse Harms, George Pierre, Bobby King, Willie Green Jr., Reggie McBride, and Tim Drummond. Produced by Cooder with Leslie Morris.
Personally I don’t quite love this one as much as 1978’s Jazz, but it is a really sold album including a cover of John Hiatt’s “The Way We Make a Broken Heart” and Eddie Floyd / Steve Cropper’s “634-5789” (first recorded by Wilson Pickett).
The album cover seems to be a painting by Ruano Llopis (you can make out the end of a signature in the bottom left) but is not credited anywhere from what I can tell. Anyone able to identify the source painting?
My copy via Bull Moose Records in Portsmouth NH
John Eckman
Found someone with a print of the painting on reddit but they also were trying to find out more about it