But so is a device that lets you talk to people (and deities) who are far away. The song, which obviously dates from the early days of telephony, deals in part with the meeting of the old and the new. The motor on this album is McDowell playing bottleneck slide on electric guitar: a relentless engine that powers him through hypnotic versions of ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ and ‘Jesus Is on the Mainline’ with bone-deep rhythm and the raw wounds of life.” Click here for “I Do Not Play No Rock-n-Roll” on iTunes and on the image for Cooder’s “Paradise and Lunch” at Amazon.The power comes from the merger of everyday technology and religion. Ry Cooder’s top three albums, according to the voters at Ranker, are “Paradise and Lunch” (which includes “Jesus is on the Mainline”), “Into the Valley” and Chicken Skin Music.” Here is Rolling Stones’ opinion of “I Do Not Play No Rock-n-Roll”: “McDowell may not have played no rock & roll, but the Rolling Stones covered his ‘You Gotta Move’ on Sticky Fingers anyway.
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