@phomchick, great selection. Regarding the sound quality of the recording, it was made after Ry Cooder had heard his first Water Lily Records recording, and was gobsmacked. He asked 'Why don't my records (at the time, all on Warner Brothers Records) sound this good?" He eventually made his own album with the label (owned by recording engineer-extraordinaire Kav Alexander), the fantastic "A Meeting by The River".