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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guitar hero Ry Cooder was making a rare Twin Cities appearance, even if it was merely as a sideman in an old gospel/old country/old bluegrass group fronted by the husband-and-wife duo of Ricky ...

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 ...