On Paradise And Lunch (1974), Cooder made several fundamental changes. First, he said goodbye to farmer tunes and dustbowl blues. Second, he worked on the songs more thoroughly in advance and planned the recordings much more carefully. And third, he used male backup singers for the first time, a trick that would come to define Cooder's style. This episode of the podcast covers the entire album as well as several live performances from the early ‘70s.

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