Veteran musician Ry Cooder largely avoids politics on his new gospel music-centric album, 'The Prodigal Son,' which emphasizes empathy, and great guitar work News Home Page ...

Of all my slide guitar heroes, Ry Cooder and David Lindley have touched me ... I got one of his amps and I’ve used one or more of the three I own on at least 80 percent of everything I’ve ...

Ry Cooder is talking about his first encounter with a guitar, more than 50 years ago. The guitar was a three-quarter-size four-string tenor. Cooder was 4 years old, well into a yearlong ...

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 ...

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Ry Cooder. Chronicle illustration by Lance Jackson. ... Cooder's ferocious guitar seals the deal on Hiatt's best single album of songs.-- Joel Selvin. June 18, 2005. Joel Selvin.

Steve Vai has called starring in Crossraoads’ iconic guitar duel scene a pivotal moment in his career. Speaking in the latest issue of Guitar World, which uncovers the stories behind 1984’s ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder has been telling stories with his guitar for the past five decades. Starting in the 1960’s, his work with Captain Beefheart, Randy Newman, The Rolling Stones and others brought slide ...

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… ...

Ry Cooder: I don’t consider myself anything like that. ... I've been doing this for so long, a lifetime. I started playing the guitar when I was like 4 or 5. What it is, ...