Show Time is the sixth album and first live album by guitarist Ry Cooder, produced by Cooder and released on the Warner Bros. record label in January 1977.
Track listing Side A "School Is Out" (Frank Guida, Gary Anderson, Gene Barge, Joseph Royster) – 2:37 "Alimony" (Brenda Lee Jones, Robert Higginbotham, Welton Young) – 4:44 "Jesus on the Mainline" (Traditional; adapted by Ry Cooder) – 5:27 "The Dark End of the Street" (Chips Moman, Dan Penn) – 6:43 Side B "Viva Seguin/Do Re Mi" (Santiago Jiménez, Woody Guthrie) – 5:24 "Volver, Volver" (Ray Maldonado) – 4:49 "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (Blind Alfred Reed) – 6:40 "Smack Dab in the Middle" (Charles E. Calhoun) – 8:00
Personnel Musicians Ry Cooder – electric guitar, vocals, arrangements Flaco Jiménez – accordion Bobby King – vocals Terry Evans – vocals Eldridge King – vocals Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone Jesse Ponce – bajo sexto Henry "Big Red" Ojeda – bass Isaac Garcia – drumsShow Time, (1977) Warner Bros. Records, Vinyl LP: BS 3059 – Liner Notes
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