Johnny Handsome | Ry Cooder by Score Revolution published on 2012-11-08T02:20:00Z Selected tracks from Johnny Handsome composed by Ry Cooder. Please visit our website at www.scorerevolution.com to listen, download, and license tracks for your media projects. All licensing inquiries can be directed to sales@scorerevolution.com In this 1989 revenge thriller from director Walter Hill, Mickey Rourke plays a disfigured petty crook who consents to an experimental plastic surgery in order to seek payback against the two former accomplices who sent him to jail. The smooth, easy sounds of a slide guitar are usually a sure giveaway that the great Ry Cooder is somewhere in the house, but rarely has Cooder’s penchant for the breadth and rich diversity of American folk music been so forcefully and confidently on display as it is here. From blues (I Can’t Walk This Time) to Cajun (Clip Joint Rhumba, Greasy Oysters) to Southern rock (First Week at Work), Cooder paints Johnny’s world as an evocation of an all-American dream gone wrong, a soul unjustly crooked by fate and circumstance, solitude and sadness. Genre Film Music