Chicken Skin Music
by Ry Cooder
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Ry Cooder bestography
Chicken Skin Music is ranked 4th best out of 38 albums by Ry Cooder on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ry Cooder is Paris, Texas which is ranked number 6304 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 211.
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Chicken Skin Music track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Chicken Skin Music rankings
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Chicken Skin Music ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 10:06 | Budden03 | 6 | 82/100 |
| ! | 03/24/2026 18:13 | jnmayles | 2,258 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2025 23:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,719 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/18/2025 11:08 | RemainInLight | 3,568 | 35/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2025 11:52 | cicadelic | 13,313 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 10% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
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White boy whipping out the N-word about a minute in. Can't play it around people without skipping that track, not unless you want to stop the party. "What was that lyric? Who's this guy? Why'd you put this on?" It kind of exemplifies the faux-bluesman-verging-on-blackface feel I sometimes get off Cooder, never been able to get into his stuff. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but when they use the word "authentic"? This ain't that.
This album has got a nice Hawaiian feeling to it.
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