His bizarrely modified and much loved old Fender Stratocaster even inspired a whole ... every guitarist really needs to hear… When most people think of Ry Cooder, they think of slide guitar and Get ...

Ry Cooder's iconic 1967 Fender Stratocaster is up for sale on Reverb for $150,000. With its many modifications, the Coodercaster is one of the most distinctive electric guitars in music history. The ...

Curiously, perhaps, Leo Fender, the Californian inventor ... to the Stratocaster played as slide guitar in the deft hands of Ry Cooder; do you know the poetic soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ 1984 ...

However you define this thing called Americana, Ry Cooder is surely its godfather ... 1930s drag on Into The Purple Valley, or with a Fender Strat pressed against a mohair jacket on Bop Till ...

Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance ... numbers on his own and climbing aboard the Cooder trio for the encore. Billed as "Guitar-Bass-Drums," Cooder was joined by bassist Nick Lowe ...

Gorgeously gritty guitar sounds waft through a north Santa Monica neighborhood on a recent morning. They emanate from a home studio and workshop, one where veteran musician Ry Cooder spends hours ...

Veteran multi-instrumentalist/musical archivist Ry Cooder follows up his concept album Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch, 2005) with another narrative, My Name is Buddy. This time, with a similarly large cast ...

search Ry Cooder and see all the musicians who list him as an influence. Paul Simon once asked a guitar maker to build him a guitar like Cooder’s—it’s the guitar Simon is holding on the ...

Joachim Cooder, the son of the L.A. blues-rock legend Ry Cooder, is making his debut as ... ‘I wish this were just as simple as a guy with a guitar. That’d be easy.’ X Instagram YouTube ...

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 ...

In the twitchy guitar and mandolin crossfire, you can hear a kind of wild and snaky joy, a rarefied strut that seems to be the song’s throbbing heart. Listen to a podcast with Ry Cooder ...