Chicken Skin Music was marked by two distinct preoccupation's ... The world of music is better because Ry Cooder is in it. He is now among a small handful of artists writing the book on how to keep ...

"My Name Is Buddy" is coolly billed as "Another record by Ry Cooder ... children's music, the rest of it shines with bluegrass, polkas, jazz, corridos and bar-brawling rock. Cooder also wrote ...

Veteran multi-instrumentalist/musical archivist Ry Cooder follows up his concept album Chavez ... Fans of earlier Cooder albums including Into the Purple Valley (Reprise, 1972) and Chicken Skin Music ...

IN PICTURES: Ry Cooder: 15 essential songs Cooder's skill ... the accordion player Flaco Jiménez. They perform on Chicken Skin Music and the excellent live set, Show Time.

One of the few popular musicians I can think of who has done so happily (besides George Harrison) is Ry Cooder ... on records of his such as “Chicken Skin Music.” He is perhaps best known ...

Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around 20 years Thursday at the Great American Music Hall qualifies as a major event to a small but select circle, who snapped up $100 tickets to ...

RY Cooder's voice is made for storytelling ... His music has crossed genres from Tex-Mex and Hawaiian (Chicken Skin Music, 1976) to 50s R&B (Bop 'Til You Drop, 1979) to rock 'n' roll (Borderline ...

For Ry Cooder, it was never just ... Using a highly personal blend of Latin music, rhythm & blues and rock, with some distinguished guest artists, Cooder tells the story of a small Mexican ...

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 ...

Since creating his own mini-world music industry with the Buena Vista Social Club in 1998, Ry Cooder ... like Chicken Skin Music and Jazz, it is a story-based concept reflecting Cooder s youth ...