Are you heartened by the rise of Americana, that so many young ... NEIL SPENCER Box fresh: 11 albums from guitar king’s first golden age… However you define this thing called Americana, Ry ...

Ry Cooder is not a religious man – on the contrary, he casts a cold eye on its organised form – but he has just made an album stuffed with gospel music and hymns, all from the best part ...

Indeed, even to call him a session musician undersells the key role he’s played on records by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ry Cooder, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, Richard ...