08 Chicken Skin Music (1976)

Chicken Skin Music would be Cooder's most ambitious project to date. An entirely new style, more than two years in the making. Cooder incorporated two new musical ingredients: Tex-Mex, as played by accordion wizard Flaco Jiménez, and Hawaiian music, as played by Gabby Pahinui and Atta Isaacs. Gospel singers Bobby King, Terry Evans and Herman Johnson completed this exciting all-American band. The album was a critical triumph, but failed to reach the masses.

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