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 ...

There are so many references to God, Jesus, sin, saviors, righteousness and judgment in veteran roots musician Ry Cooder’s forthcoming album “The Prodigal Son,” it’s fair to wonder whether ...

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 ...

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.

Interview Ry Cooder: Music Can Bring People Together. by Nenad Georgievski April 21, 2022. The world of music is better because Ry Cooder is in it. He is now among a small handful of artists writing ...

Ry Cooder may have done the impossible. He persuaded Rosanne Cash to devote a series of concerts – including a June 18 date at the Chicago Theatre — to songs written, performed or made famous ...

Ry Cooder—the guitar wizard, songwriter, film-score composer, itinerant scholar and interpreter of soulful sounds from around the world and his own back yard—always disliked being the main ...

For Ry Cooder, the Buena Vista Social Club was just the overture. With some very fine musicians, and a little help from Bill Clinton, he has produced two more great Cuban albums.

When Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris are sitting in the nightclub balcony, you can bet there's a heavy-duty act onstage. Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around ...

Musician Ry Cooder poses alongside a custom-built ice cream truck commissioned by him and featuring a mural of Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine by artist Vincent Valdez, at the Petersen Automotive ...

Ry Cooder’s first live record in thirty-five years reflect some of his concerns over the past three decades or so.

Ry Cooder's latest inspiration is the story of a lost Hispanic neighbourhood. Fiona Sturges meets the legendary guitarist. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.