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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the few popular musicians I can think of who has done so happily (besides George Harrison) is Ry ... took Cooder for all he was worth, the modern Rolling Stones, with the two guitars ...

And also elevation to the pantheon of Ry Cooder musical classics, for his guitar style, his compendious repertoire – a thousand or so numbers in Galban's memory, he reckons. And because Cooder ...

Pioneering guitarist and producer Ry Cooder is teaming with one of bluegrass and country music’s most iconic couples, Ricky Skaggs and his wife Sharon White, for a one-of-a-kind concert tour ...

Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban, Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch): Two electric guitars, two drum sets, congas and bass. It sounds limiting, unless the instruments are in the right hands. Mambo Sinuendo ...