Chavéz Ravine

This is a bit tangential but do you know Ry Cooder's 2005 album, Chavéz Ravine, Eve? I've been listening to it recently and enjoying it. I thought of it in this context because it's very much about place and more specifically about displacement (since it deals with the forcible removal of the Mexican-American community from Chavéz Ravine, Los Angeles, in the '50s). It has quite a political flavour but I think it's equally concerned with providing a kind of snapshot of a particular culture in a specific time and place. Here's the album cover: