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 ...

For Ry Cooder, it was never just about the 80-year-old Cubans. His new album, his first since his Havana period with the Buena Vista Social Club, already widely acclaimed by reviewers, emerges ...

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 ...

THE ARTICLE about Ry Cooder producing Ersi Arvizu’s new album [“Finding Her Voz Again,” by Agustin Gurza, May 3] is very biased and vindictive. Why does Gurza find it relevant when he is ...

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, Trespass soundtrack (Sire/Warner): When it comes to soundtracks, guitarist Ry Cooder is one of the masters. With Trespass, he again evokes mood and atmosphere as vividly as a ...

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 ...