Here, we take a trip back through some of the great man’s defining tracks of the last half century that every guitarist really needs to hear… When most people think of Ry Cooder, they think of slide ...

"I'll never forget it." 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 ...

Of course, he sounded amazing, and that fired me up. Of all my slide guitar heroes, Ry Cooder and David Lindley have touched me the most. David became a mentor with conversations that were equal ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder has done that and more with “No Banker Left Behind ... he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing “Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was hooked. Cooder knew he had ...

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

Ry Cooder has a new lease on life ... Cooder — who sings and plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass and keyboards on the album — puts his distinctive stamp on any array of classic songs.

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 ...

Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder has spent the majority of his 50-year career as one of the country’s most vital communal historians and champions of roots music, illuminating and reanimating ...

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 ...

L.A. guitar institution Ry Cooder is set to release his album “Election Special” Tuesday, a handy, nine-track blues-rock guide to this year’s presidential election. The subject matter?