"'My Name Is Buddy': Another Record by Ry Cooder" is, in a certain respect, Ry Cooder circling back, revisiting a body of music that has for much of his life held a certain fascination. "When I first started doing records. I thought, 'I like these old songs. These dustbowl songs.' So I made a couple of records and people thought: 'What's this?' You can't sell this.' But I kept making these things, again and again, because I knew a good song," he says. "I'd say it's taken me 40 years to get it right."