I, Flathead

Ry Cooder’s I, Flathead finds the slide guitar virtuoso navigating blues rock, country, samba, and rumba with the ease of a seasoned traveler. Released on Nonesuch, this collection showcases Cooder’s restless eclecticism—his fingerpicking cuts through Latin rhythms and cool jazz inflections with the precision of someone who’s spent decades mining American roots music and its global cousins. The album confirms what his best work always suggested: genre boundaries dissolve under his hands.