I was drawn to it immediately,” the journeyman player says of the guitar in question. “It's got colors and knobs and bits of Lego” ...

Outstanding performances by Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski, a masterful screenplay by Sam Shepard and Ry Cooder’s haunting soundtrack have contributed to “Paris, Texas’” cult film status and ...

Pandit Ronu Majumdar, an eminent Bansuri virtuoso from Varanasi with Bengali roots, has been awarded the Padma Shri, India's ...

With a small film crew, Wim Wenders accompanied his old friend Ry Cooder, who had previously written the music for “Paris, Texas” and “The End of Violence”, on a trip to Havana. Wenders immersed ...

It is a maverick’s guitar. Eddie Van Halen was famously pictured with one on the cover of Guitar World, but it was Ry Cooder ...

A John Hiatt tribute put on as a MusiCares benefit featured Los Lobos, Lyle Lovett, Tom Morello, Brandy Clark, Joe Bonamassa ...

Noted British singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithful died at age 78 in London while in the company of her family on ...

Hiatt has played with some guitar heroes in his time, like a noted association with Ry Cooder, so it was fitting when acoustic instruments got put away on a few occasions to go for something that ...

Nick Cave has said that the death of Marianne Faithfull at the age of 78 means a loss of “not just a fiercely unique talent, ...

The Rolling Stones' original songbook stands out as one of the most imposing and impressive in the history of rock and roll. In addition to that, this band was always adept at delivering outstanding ...

Faithfull co-wrote Sister Morphine with Sir Mick and Richards from the Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers, releasing ...

The latest in Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic radio shows is a conversation with Joe Boyd whose recent tome, published by Faber, ...