Guitarist, composer and singer Ry Cooder is the latest in a string of artists to take up the story of Chavez Ravine — an impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of immigrants. Years ago ...

Field recordings of plantation blues or even doo-wop records from studios long shuttered always carry with them some patina of place and time, a certain sizzle in the analog static or a warm heat ...

I read with great interest Lynell George’s extensive article about Ry Cooder’s upcoming album “Chavez Ravine” [Soundtrack for a Lost L.A.,” May 1]. I was surprised that it gave only ...

Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder and Lalo Guerrero, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story combines contemporary interviews with archival footage and Normark’s haunting black-and ...

Ry Cooder with various artists, Chávez Ravine, Nonesuch Records. VIRTUALLY EVERY baseball fan knows that Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium is located in an area called Chávez Ravine. But few know ...

What makes Cooder a unique musician is that he understands music's greatest strength — how it culturally defines people. That is more than evident in his new CD, "Chavez Ravine," which was ...

Since creating his own mini-world music industry with the Buena Vista Social Club in 1998, Ry Cooder ... rock, Chavez Ravine provides proof if there wasn t enough already that Cooder ...

“Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness ... It’s easy to describe Ry Cooder as a historian, an archivist, a nostalgist, or a curator, but it’s important to remember that ...

Bemoaning what happened in Chavez Ravine is part of the modern L.A. gospel ... documentaries that captured their plight and enjoyed Ry Cooder’s 2005 concept album, “Chávez Ravine,” which ...

More than half a century later, inspired both by Normark's pictures and his own memories of east Los Angeles as it once was, the guitarist Ry Cooder has composed Chávez Ravine, an exquisite ...

On days like this, Ry Cooder would just as soon tuck himself ... his latest recording, “Chavez Ravine” -- a long glance back at a now-vanished Los Angeles and a poor hilltop neighborhood ...

RY Cooder is a musical excavator ... concept album telling the story of the lost Latino community of Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, displaced to make way for the Dodgers' baseball stadium.