Ry Cooder (album)

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Alimony" - 2:55
2. "France Chance" - 2:45
3. "One Meat Ball" - 2:27
4. "Do Re Mi" - 3:03
5. "My Old Kentucky Home " - 1:45
6. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" - 2:45

   Side 2

7. "Available Space" - 2:11
8. "Pigmeat" - 3:07
9. "Police Dog Blues" - 2:43
10. "Goin' to Brownsville" - 3:24
11. "Dark Is the Night" - 2:48

    Personnel

Musicians

• Van Dyke Parks - piano
• Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin, bass guitar
• Chris Ethridge - bass guitar
• Richie Hayward - drums
• Roy Estrada - bass guitar
• Milt Holland - drums, percussion
• John Barbata - drums
• Max Bennett - bass guitar
• Bobby Bruce - violin
• Gloria Jones - backing vocals

  Production

• Van Dyke Parks - Producer; Arranger on "One Meat Ball"
• Lenny Waronker - Producer
• Judy Betz - Production Assistant
• Lee Herschberg - Engineer, Mix-down
• Doug Botnick - Engineer
• Thaddeus James Lowe - Engineer
• Rudy Hill - Engineer
• Bob Kovach - Engineer
• Kirby Johnson - Conductor, Orchestrator

  Other credits

• Airstream - for the 1937 trailer pictured on the front of the album sleeve
• Frank Bez - for the photo of the Airstream trailer
• Susan Titelman - for the photo of Cooder on the back of the album sleeve
• Ed Thrasher - for art direction

  [Billboard charts]