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Ry Cooder's album 'Chávez Ravine' (2005).


If anybody is interested, Chávez Ravine is almost like this movie set to music. Specifically it's the Chicano popular music of Southern California from the forties to the sixties, as interpreted by Cooder and associates like Flaco Jiminez, Don Tosti, and Lalo Guerrero.

The album does have a bit of tighter focus in time and space. Mostly it hangs around Chávez Ravine lamenting the neighborhood's eminent domain acquisition, destruction, and the subsequent abandonment of the Elysian Fields project in favor of building Dodger Stadium. One song is a virtual duet between the recorded voices of Frank Wilkinson and Jack Webb.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/chavez-ravine-mw0000208854

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