RY COODER I, Flathead (2008 UK 'Deluxe Edition' 14-track CD album - 'I, Flathead', is the final part of Ry's ambitious & fascinating 'California Trilogy', in which he journeys through the real & imagined history of mid-20th century, multi-ethnicCalifornia; this time however, he has written a remarkable 104-page novella to accompany this disc, a surreally funny page-turner of a tale about itinerant musician Kash Buk and the various characters he meets in his travels out west,all of whom get to narrate parts of the story; presented in a wrapped casebound 104-page book)