A Meeting by the River

A Meeting by the River
Studio album by
Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
ReleasedApril 1993[1]
RecordedSeptember 1992
GenreBlues, international, new-age, pop rock[2]
Length39:35
LabelWater Lily Acoustics
ProducerKavichandran Alexander, Jayant Shah
Ry Cooder chronology
Little Village
(1992) 		A Meeting by the River
(1993) 		Talking Timbuktu
(1994)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt chronology
Gathering Rain Clouds
(1993) 		A Meeting by the River
(1993) 		Mumtaz Mahal
(1995)

A Meeting by the River is an album recorded by Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt; it was recorded in September 1992 and released in April 1993 through the record label Water Lily Acoustics.[2] This improvised, collaborative album features Cooder on slide guitar and Bhatt on the Mohan veena, a stringed instrument created by Bhatt. A Meeting by the River was produced by Kavichandran Alexander and Jayant Shah, engineered by Alexander, and mastered by Kevin Michael Gray and Paul Stubblebine. It peaked at number four on Billboard's Top World Music Albums chart, and earned Cooder and Bhatt Grammy Awards for Best World Music Album at the 36th Grammy Awards in 1994. The album is included in Tom Moon's 2008 book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Canongate U.S. p. 223. ISBN 9781841958606. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Gioffre, Daniel. "A Meeting by the River". Allmusic. Archived from the original on December 19, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2011.