They emanate from a home studio and workshop, one where veteran musician Ry Cooder spends hours studiously ... “The gospel music has a nice way of making these suggestions about empathy.

but Cooder then abandoned this direction with the reverential Jazz. 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 ...

IN PICTURES: Ry Cooder: 15 essential songs Cooder's skill – playing blues, folk, rock, soul and jazz on acoustic, electric and bottleneck guitar – has been inspirational. A concert in London ...

is Ry Cooder. Perhaps in Cooder’s case it isn’t surprising since he began his career as a studio musician, when he was still a teen-ager—he grew up, that is, in a context where music was ...

We've just finished discussing Ry ... And because Cooder wanted to try something new after six years of Buena Vista, namely, a revisiting of the atmosphere of 1950s jukebox music, "somewhere ...

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 quickly realised that he was gathering more ...

Ry Cooder has a new lease on life, musically speaking, and the legendary guitarist and roots-music champion couldn’t be more delighted about his first album in six years and his first concert ...

Beyond his solo work Ry Cooder is simply a music fan, and in 1997 he thrived in the role by shining a light on a few favorite Cuban performers. The landmark album was called 'Buena Vista Social ...