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EPISODIX:
Posted:
May 7, 2026
Music:
All songs by Ry Cooder except where noted*
- “Crazy ‘Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)” Borderline (Warner Bros) 1980
- “The Long Riders” The Long Riders (Original Soundtrack) (Warner Bros) 1980
- “Swamp Walk” Southern Comfort (Original Soundtrack) (Warner Bros) 1981
- “Feeling Bad Blues” Crossroads (Original Soundtrack) (Warner Bros) 1986
- “Cancion Mixteca” Paris, Texas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Warner Bros) 1985
- *The Chieftans “Cancion Mixteca” San Patricio (Hear Music) 2010
- “Train to Florida” Geronimo: An American Legend (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Columbia) (1993)
- “Last Stand” Alamo Bay (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Slash) 1985
- “Across the Borderland” The Border (Backstreet) 1982
Notes:
In part four of our series on the legendary Ry Cooder, listener Kurt Gallagher examines Ry’s work in the 1980s. That was when scoring films and creating soundtracks were his main musical focus.
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