Live in San Francisco Digital MP3 Album exclusive

Live in San Francisco Digital MP3 Album exclusiveRy Cooder's first live record in more than 35 years, Live in San Francisco was recorded in 2011 during a special two night engagement with the Corridos Famosos band and a ten piece Mexican brass band at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. "One of those nights when you wish you'd been in Row A," says the Times of London. The album, produced by Cooder, includes original songs and interpretations of other material from throughout his career, as

featuring 11 original songs by Emmylou Harris

high-energy whirlwind of free jazz

" The New York Times says "there hasn't been a more sublimely lyrical gesture in his 20-year recording career

a collaboration with Preservation Hall Jazz Band

the result is a frenetic

captivating story-telling and emotional intimacy

and her grandfather

" says NPR: "a timeless African sound reconfigured ever so slightly for the electronic age

there was Robert Ashley

and Aaron Copland

The CD/DVD format of this album is no longer available

songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joachim Cooder uses the plain-spoken songs of country-music progenitor and banjo player Uncle Dave Macon as a jumping off point