Looking for Music on a Sunday Afternoon

I can remember in the late 70's wandering around flea markets and old record stores "fishing" for music. I stuck pretty much with what is now Classic Rock--- with an occasional venture into a few favorite folk musicians, and some old blues. You never knew what you could find in some of those dusty bins. I would pick up a Leonard Cohen Album still sealed in plastic (Songs of Love and Hate) and then debate on whether to even play the damn thing because "it may be worth something some day." (Funny but last week Cohen's first three albums were remastered and re-released on CD, but I digress.)

Today, just surfin' the net instead of fishing through dusty bins, Ry Cooder's Paradise and Lunch caught my eye. Don't even remember if my friend "Bum" shipped a Cooder CD down here from the Monastery at some point... (???) Van Fans know that Van Morrision gave him a credit for Slide Guitar on Full Force Gale-- a song on his 1979 CD Into the Music. But that isn't my reason to buy. I'm just looking for something different to listen to in the car. This Review at Amazon says:

"ask yourself whether you like old country blues, old gospel, calypso, street-corner a capella singing, or any pre-commercial American roots music. No? OK, forget it then."

It's the kind of record that you mention to that new friend you discover whose taste is broad, deep and solid, who would recommend a record to you and you would just buy it unquestioningly because of the respect you have for the person's discriminating taste, and that person will look you in the eye with a knowing respect and say, "You know about 'Paradise and Lunch'?" And it will turn out to be on both your top 10 lists.

Hmmmm. Okay I'll reel it in and see what shows up in the mailbox.