The Slide Area

Album by Ry Cooder

The Slide Area is a studio album by American guitarist Ry Cooder, released in 1982. The album emphasises Cooder's slide-guitar techniques and draws on roots rock, blues and R&B with a mix of electric and acoustic textures, and it occupies a place in his early-1980s output focused on American roots forms prior to his later explorations of broader international sounds.