I, Flathead Digital MP3 Album

Cooder’s trilogy exploring a historic/mythic/surreal California (Chavez Ravine, My Name Is Buddy) culminates with this remarkable 14-song album in which Cooder assumes the gruff yet chummy voice of Kash Buk, a hard-living, car-racing, guitar-playing man with a space-alien sidekick. The deluxe version includes a 95-page novella by Cooder in which, he says, “strange is the norm” and characters hop off the page and onto disc.