"My Name Is Buddy" is coolly billed as "Another record by Ry Cooder," as if it were a casual studio outing in an unremarkable career. But this is, after all, the man who brought us 1997's "Buena ...

Chicken Skin Music was marked by two distinct preoccupation's. Contributions from Flaco Jiminez and Gabby Pahuini enhanced its mixture of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian styles, while Cooder's seamless playing ...

Fans of earlier Cooder albums including Into the Purple Valley (Reprise, 1972) and Chicken Skin Music (Reprise, 1976) will be happy to find a number of familiar faces and musical styles. But unlike ...

They perform on Chicken Skin Music and the excellent live set, Show Time. There are flops in this collection, too. Jazz, a homage to the Dixieland era, is too crafted to succeed and Cooder later ...

Ry Cooder’s first live record in thirty-five years reflect some of his concerns over the past three decades or so. ... and it is appears on records of his such as “Chicken Skin Music. ...

Since creating his own mini-world music industry with the Buena Vista Social Club in 1998, Ry Cooder s own solo career has almost been forgotten. Of course, Cooder has never been an artist known ...

COODER19-C-09JAN03-PK-HO Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder HANDOUT PHOTO/VERIFY RIGHTS AND USEAGE. HANDOUT. Ry Cooder's "Paradise and Lunch" ... Chicken Skin Music. Ry Cooder. Reprise 1976.

Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around 20 years Thursday at the Great... Music review: Rare Ry Cooder gig SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

For Ry Cooder, records were not only a first love, but an escape.As a boy growing up in Santa Monica, Calif. in the 1950's, listening to records was a lens into a wider world. He says the first ...