Joachim Cooder

featuring the likes of ry cooder, sam gendel and vieux farka toure, this album is both performed and inspired by great musicians and this shines through in the timeless, homely quality of these sweetly melodic american folk songs.

Cooder uses the plain-spoken songs of country-music progenitor and banjo player Uncle Dave Macon as a jumping off point, playing with the lyrics and reworking melodies for his chosen instrument: an electric mbira (a variation on an African thumb piano). Cooder culled songs from Macon’s vast catalogue and recorded them with his band.