A total of eleven tracks: eight by other people and three by the protagonist of the album. “In The Prodigal Son”, Ry Cooder tackles the “gospel”. genre. He does so in his own “scientific” way, by studying every aspect of the chosen genre in detail and then reinterpreting it and personalizing it with the utmost respect, however, for the original parameters. Ry Cooder plays guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin and keyboards, while his son Joachim is plays drums and percussion.