Chavez RavineProduct Description Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine is a post World War II era American narrative of "cool cats," radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball. Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends creates an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside Chicano cummunity, which was bulldozed by developed in the interest of "progress." Amazon. com Ry Cooder might have been tempted to