My Name Is Buddy

My Name is Buddy
Studio album by Ry Cooder
Released	March 6, 2007
Genre	Americana, folk, country, country folk, bluegrass, blues, honky tonk
Label	Nonesuch
Producer	Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology
Chávez Ravine (2005) My Name is Buddy (2007) I, Flathead (2008)

My Name Is Buddy: Another Record by Ry Cooder is the thirteenth studio album by Ry Cooder. It is the second social-political concept album by Ry Cooder. Cooder has described it as the second in a trilogy that began with Chávez Ravine and concluded with I, Flathead.^[1] The album is packaged in a small booklet that includes a brief story and drawing to accompany each song. Both the songs and the stories relate tales from the viewpoint of the characters, Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad. The liner notes ask listeners/readers to join them as they "Journey through time and space in days of labor, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos, and trains... the America of yesteryear."