Tim Drummond (born Timothy Lee Drummond; 20 April 1941 in Canton, IL) is an American bass guitarist who has toured and recorded with many notable artists including Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Ry Cooder, J. J. Cale, Lonnie Mack, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Joe Cocker, Albert Collins, Jewel, Essra Mohawk, and many others.

Drummond has co-written songs with many of the artists he has worked with, including: "Saved" (Bob Dylan), "Who's Talking" (J.J. Cale), and "Down In Hollywood" (Ry Cooder). Drummond often plays as part of the session rhythm duo Tim & Jim with drummer Jim Keltner.

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise. Also, " The Man is coming" is a term used to frighten small children who are misbehaving.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.

History

The term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to the late 19th Century. In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel ''Naked Lunch'', and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in ''U.S. News and World Report'', had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine ''Easyriders'' which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema.

Use as praise

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also

Absentee landlord

Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four'')

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

Ruling class

The Establishment

Power elite

Corrections officer

YTMND

Notes

References

Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). ''Random House Dictionary of American Slang''. New York: Random House.

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Name	Ry Cooder
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Ryland Peter Cooder
Born	March 15, 1947Los Angeles, California, USA
Attended	Santa Monica High School
Instrument	Guitar, mandolin, vocals, array mbira
Genre	Americana, roots rock, folk, blues, Tex-Mex, country, gospel, world music
Occupation	Musician, songwriter, film scorer, record producer, instructor
Years active	1967–present
Label	Warner Bros. RecordsNonesuch/Elektra Records
Associated acts	Taj Mahal, Captain Beefheart, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Nicky Hopkins, Gabby Pahinui, Buena Vista Social Club, Mavis Staples, Ali Farka Toure
Website	Ry Cooder }}

Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947) is an American guitarist, singer and composer.

He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in blues-rock, roots music from the United States, and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.

Cooder's solo work has been an eclectic mix, taking in dust bowl folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and much else. He has collaborated with many important musicians, including The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Earl Hines, Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, The Chieftains, John Lee Hooker, Pops, Mavis Staples, Gabby Pahinui, Flaco Jiménez, Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club), Freddy Fender and Ali Farka Touré. He formed the Little Village supergroup with Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, and Jim Keltner.

Cooder was ranked 8th on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.

Career

1960s

During the 1960s, Cooder briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Cooder first attracted attention in the 1960s, playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal and Ed Cassidy in the Rising Sons. He also played with Randy Newman at this time, including on ''12 Songs'' and possibly Newman's first album, ''Randy Newman''. Van Dyke Parks worked with Newman and then with Cooder during the 1960s. Parks arranged Cooder's "One Meatball" according to Parks' 1984 interview by Bob Claster.

Cooder was a guest session musician on various recording sessions with the Rolling Stones in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the Stones' ''Let It Bleed'' (mandolin on "Love in Vain"), and ''Sticky Fingers'', on which he contributed the slide guitar on "Sister Morphine". During this period, Cooder joined with Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and longtime Rolling Stones sideman Nicky Hopkins to record ''Jamming with Edward''. Cooder also played slide guitar for the 1970 movie ''Performance'', which contained Mick Jagger's first solo single, "Memo from Turner". The 1975 Rolling Stones compilation album ''Metamorphosis'' features an uncredited Cooder contribution on Bill Wyman's "Downtown Suzie", which is also the first Rolling Stones song played and recorded in the open G tuning.

Ry Cooder also collaborated extensively with long-time friend and like-minded individual, Lowell George of Little Feat. Cooder can be heard on the original version of Little Feat's "Willin'." He played slide guitar on that track after Lowell cut his finger whilst making model airplanes.

1970s

Throughout the 1970s, Cooder released a series of Warner Bros. Records albums that showcased his guitar work. Cooder, like a musicologist or treasure hunter, explored bygone musical genres and found great old-time recordings which he then, as a musician, personalized with sensitive, updated reworkings. Thus, on his breakthrough album, ''Into the Purple Valley'', he chose unusual instrumentations and performed his own arrangements of old Black blues and gospel songs, a Calypso, and white country music songs (giving a tempo change to the cowboy ballad, "Billy the Kid"). The album opened with a protest song, "How Can You Keep on Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham about the Okies who were not welcomed with open arms when they migrated to escape the Dust Bowl in the 1930s — to which Cooder gave a rousing-yet-satirical march accompaniment. His later 1970s albums (with the exception of ''Jazz'') do not fall under a single genre description, but — to generalize broadly — it might be fair to call Cooder's self-titled first album blues; ''Into the Purple Valley'', ''Boomer's Story'', and ''Paradise and Lunch'', folk and blues; ''Chicken Skin Music'' and ''Showtime'', a unique melange of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian; ''Jazz'', 1920s jazz; ''Bop Till You Drop'', 1950s' R&B;; and ''Borderline'' and ''Get Rhythm'', eclectic rock-based excursions. Cooder's 1979 album ''Bop Till You Drop'' was the first popular music album to be recorded digitally. It yielded his biggest hit, an R&B; cover version of Elvis Presley's 1960s recording "Little Sister". Ry Cooder is credited on Van Morrison's 1979 album, ''Into the Music'', for slide guitar on the song "Full Force Gale". Cooder also played guitar on Judy Collins' 1970 concert tour, and is featured on ''Living'', the 1971 live album recorded during that tour.

1980s

Cooder has worked as a studio musician and has also scored many film soundtracks including Wim Wenders film ''Paris, Texas'' (1984). Cooder based this soundtrack and title song "Paris, Texas" on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)", which he described as "The most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music." "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)" was also the basis for Cooder's song "Powis Square" for the movie ''Performance''. His other film work includes Walter Hill's ''The Long Riders'' (1980), ''Southern Comfort'' (1981), ''Brewster's Millions'' (1985), ''Last Man Standing'' (1996), Hill's ''Trespass'' (1992) and Mike Nichols' ''Primary Colors'' (1998). Cooder dubbed all slide guitar parts in the 1986 film ''Crossroads'', a take on blues legend Robert Johnson. In 1988, Cooder produced the album by his longtime backing vocalists Bobby King and Terry Evans on Rounder Records titled ''Live and Let Live''. He contributed his slide guitar work to every track. He also plays extensively on their 1990 self-produced Rounder release ''Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves''.

1990s

In the early 1990s Cooder collaborated on two world music "crossover" albums, which blended the traditional American musical genres that Cooder has championed throughout his career with the contemporary improvised music of India and Africa. For ''A Meeting by the River'' (1993), which also featured his son Joachim on percussion, he teamed with Hindustani classical musician V.M. Bhatt, a virtuoso of the Mohan Veena, a modified 20-string archtop guitar of Bhatt's own invention. In 1995 he teamed with African multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Toure on the album ''Talking Timbuktu'', which he also produced; the album also featured longtime Cooder collaborator Jim Keltner on drums, veteran blues guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, jazz bassist John Patitucci and African percussionists and musicians including Hamma Sankare and Oumar Toure. Both albums won the Grammy Award for 'Best World Music Album' in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Cooder also worked with Tuvan throat singers for the score to the 1993 film ''Geronimo: An American Legend''.

In 1995 he performed in ''The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True'', a musical performance of the popular story at the Lincoln Center in New York to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and was issued on CD and video in 1996.

In the late 1990s Cooder played a significant role in the increased appreciation of traditional Cuban music, due to his collaboration as producer of the ''Buena Vista Social Club'' (1997) recording, which became a worldwide hit and revived the careers of some of the greatest surviving exponents of 20th century Cuban music. Wim Wenders, who had previously directed 1984's ''Paris Texas'', directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, ''Buena Vista Social Club'' (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

2000s

Cooder's 2005 album ''Chávez Ravine'' was touted by his record label as being "a post-World War II-era American narrative of 'cool cats', radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball" — the record is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Chávez Ravine. Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside Chicano community which no longer exists. Cooder says, "Here is some music for a place you don’t know, up a road you don’t go. Chávez Ravine, where the sidewalk ends." Drawing from the various musical strains of Los Angeles, including conjunto, corrido, R&B;, Latin pop, and jazz, Cooder and friends conjure the ghosts of Chávez Ravine and Los Angeles at mid-century. On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by East L.A. legends like Chicano music patriarch Lalo Guerrero, Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti, Thee Midniters front man Little Willie G, and Ersi Arvizu, of The Sisters and El Chicano.

Cooder's next record was released in 2007. Entitled ''My Name Is Buddy'', it tells the story of Buddy Red Cat, who travels and sees the world in the company of his like-minded friends, Lefty Mouse and Rev. Tom Toad. The entire recording is a parable of the working class progressivism of the first half of the American twentieth century, and even has a song featuring executed unionist Joe Hill. ''My Name Is Buddy'' was accompanied by a booklet featuring a story and illustration (by Vincent Valdez) for each track, providing additional context to Buddy's adventures.

Cooder produced and performed on an album for Mavis Staples entitled ''We'll Never Turn Back'', which was released on April 24, 2007. The concept album focused on Gospel songs of the civil rights movement and also included two new original songs by Cooder.

Ry Cooder's album ''I, Flathead'' was released on June 24, 2008. It is the completion of his California trilogy. Based on the drag racing culture of the early 1960s, the album is set on the desert salt flats in southern California. The disc was also released as a deluxe edition with stories written by Cooder to accompany the music.

In late 2009, Cooder toured Japan, New Zealand and Australia with Nick Lowe, performing some of Lowe's songs and a selection of Cooder's own material, mainly from the 1970s. Joaquim Cooder (Ry's son) provided percussion, and Juliette Commagere and Alex Lilly contributed backing vocals.

The song "Diaraby", which Cooder recorded with Ali Farka Touré, is used as the theme to ''The World's'' Geoquiz. ''The World'' is a radio show distributed by Public Radio International.

In 2009, Cooder performed in ''The People Speak'', a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's ''A People's History of the United States''. Cooder performed with Bob Dylan and Van Dyke Parks on the documentary broadcast on December 13, 2009 on the ''History Channel''. They played "Do Re Mi" and reportedly a couple of other Guthrie songs that were excluded from the final edit. He also traveled with the band Los Tigres del Norte and recorded the 2010 album ''San Patricio'' with the Chieftains, Lila Downs, Liam Neeson, Linda Ronstadt, Van Dyke Parks, Los Cenzontles, and Los Tigres.

2010s

In June 2010, responding to the passage of Arizona SB 1070, he released the single "Quicksand", which tells the story of Mexicans attempting to emigrate to Arizona through the desert. Cooder's new album ''Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down'', released on 30 August 2011, contains politically charged songs such as "No Banker Left Behind" which was inspired by a Robert Scheer column.

Awards

1988 Grammy Award – ''Pecos Bill'' (Rabbit Ears Productions)

1993 Grammy Award – ''Meeting by the River''

1995 Grammy Award – ''Talking Timbuktu with Ali Farka Toure''

1998 Grammy Award – ''Buena Vista Social Club''

2000 – Ry Cooder received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University, Canada

2001 - Ry Cooder received an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of the Arts

2003 – ''Rolling Stone'' magazine named Ry Cooder the 8th Greatest Guitarist of All Time in their "100 Greatest Guitarists" list, p. 8

Discography

Singles

"Little Sister" (1979; Warner Records)

"Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)" Recorded live, October 25, 1980 at Victoria Apollo, London / "If Walls Could Talk" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California / "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California/ "Look At Granny Run Run" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California (1981; Warner Records)

"Gypsy Woman"/ "Alimony" (1982; Nonesuch Records)

"Get Rhythm"/ "Get Your Lies Straight/ "Down In Hollywood" (1988)

"Come Down" / "Get Rhythm" / "Little Sister" (1994)

"Quicksand" (June 2010)

Solo albums

''Ry Cooder'' (December 1970)

''Into the Purple Valley'' (February 1972)

''Boomer's Story'' (November 1972)

''Paradise and Lunch'' (May 1974)

''Chicken Skin Music'' (October 1976)

''Showtime'' (August 1977)

''Jazz'' (June 1978)

''Bop Till You Drop'' (August 1979)

''Borderline'' (October 1980)

''The Slide Area'' (April 1982)

''Get Rhythm'' (November 1987)

''Chávez Ravine'' (May 2005)

''My Name Is Buddy'' (March 2007)

''I, Flathead'' (June 2008)

''Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down'' (August 2011)

Compilations

''Why Don't You Try Me Tonight'' (1986)

''River Rescue - The Very Best Of Ry Cooder'' (1994)

''Music by Ry Cooder'' (1995) (two-disc set of film music)

''The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed (October 2008)

Collaborations

''Tanyet'' (1967) (with The Ceyleib People)

''Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder'' (recorded 1965/66, released 1992)

''Little Village'' (1992)

''A Meeting by the River'' (1993) (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)

''Talking Timbuktu'' (1994) (with Ali Farka Touré)

''Buena Vista Social Club'' (September 1997)

''Hollow Bamboo'' with Jon Hassell and Ronu Majumdar (bansuri) (2000)

''Mambo Sinuendo'' (January 2003) (with Manuel Galbán)

''San Patricio'' (March 2010) (with The Chieftains)

Soundtracks

''Performance'' (1970)

''The Long Riders'' (June 1980)

''Southern Comfort'' (1981)

''The Border'' (1982)

''Paris, Texas'' (February 1985)

''Music from Alamo Bay'' (August 1985)

''Blue City'' (July 1986)

''Crossroads'' (July 1986)

''Cocktail (1988)

''Johnny Handsome'' (October 1989)

''Trespass'' (January 1993)

''Geronimo: An American Legend'' (1993)

''Last Man Standing'' (1996)

''The End of Violence'' (1997)

''Primary Colors'' (1998)

Performs on:

''Safe as Milk'' (1967) with Captain Beefheart

''Neil Young (album)'' (1968) with Neil Young

''The Candlestickmaker'' (1970) with Ron Elliott

''Washington County'' (1970) with Arlo Guthrie

''Living'' (1971) with Judy Collins

''Money and Cigarettes'' (February 1983) with Eric Clapton

''Midnight Mission'' (1984) Carla Olson & The Textones (featured on two songs)

''Bring the Family'' (1987) with John Hiatt

''Live and Let Live'' (1988) with Bobby King & Terry Evans

''King Cake Party'' (1994) with The Zydeco Party Band

Written works

''Los Angeles Stories'' (City Lights Publishers, 2011)

References

External links

Ry Cooder (Nonesuch Records)

Easy Guitar Chords Homepage

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Michael Terry Evans (born January 19, 1982 in Dublin, Georgia) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball.

Evans was traded from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in return for pitcher Jeff Weaver on July 5, .

He debuted on June 17, , striking out in a pinch-hit appearance against the Los Angeles Dodgers. On June 20, he made his first career start in right field in his first home game. It was Father's Day, and his father was is attendance. He later hit his first home run in his first plate appearance at home on a 3–1 count.

He is married to the former Tanner Cochran of Dublin, Georgia. They have one child.

Although he began the 2010 season with the major league club, Evans was designated for assignment early on and sent outright to the minors on April 14.

After signing a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants after 2010, he was released on June 1, 2011. He signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies later that day and was assigned to the Double-A Reading Phillies.

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Bobby King (July 28, 1944 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American gospel-style, R&B;, soul singer. He once formed a singing duo with Terry Evans in the early 1970s. Since 1973, Bobby has sung on most Ry Cooder albums. He was also lead backing singer in Bruce Springsteen's Human Touch tour band of 1992-93. He has also released two solo albums, ''Bobby King'' (1981) and ''Love in the Fire'' (1984), and two albums with Terry Evans, ''Live and Let Live'' (1988) and ''Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves'' (1990). He is currently doing Gospel music.

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