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Ry Cooder Interview
dig's Brian Wise spoke to Ry Cooder about delving back into LA's culture, to find musicians like the late Chicano music giants Lalo Guerrero and Little Willie G. They'd taken their own music, and living side by side with black and latino Americans melded mexican music with swing changes.
During the 1950's, Chavez Ravine - where this music came from, was bulldozed to make way for the Dodgers stadium. If you looked at the area now, you'd never guess that where the stadium lies was once dirt-poor.
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