Ry Cooder had established himself as a virtuoso of fretted instruments (i.e., banjo, Mexican tiple, Middle Eastern saz), backing the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, the Rolling Stones, Randy Newman and ...

especially when you’re looking at Ry Cooder and Lowell George and David. They set the tone for me on how slide guitar can fit within a song that’s not just in a blues idiom. “David’s tone ...

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During the later portion of Friday’s concert, Dylan pulled an unexpected move and dusted off Ry Cooder’s “Across the Borderline” for the first time since Nov. 3, 1998. Notably, Dylan had ...

a quarter century removed from the landmark recording of the Buena Vista Social Club helmed by Ry Cooder, returns as “the elder” and for the first time with his own album of mostly original songs, ...

Whether reshaping roots music or making emotive soundtracks, Ry Cooder ... Mexican 12-string. Exploring rhythm, mood and texture, he brought fresh resonance to the emotional terrain of the music he ...

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Soulful musical polymath Taj Mahal and guitar god Ry Cooder go way back. In the mid-60s, they played in Los Angeles band the Rising Sons, one of the country’s first integrated bands fusing rock ...

Ry Cooder was jamming ... collaborator Joachim Cooder, the veteran guitarist and his old friend Mahal wasted no time laying down tracks for Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie ...

The intimacy and the dynamics of the duet setting have long appealed to virtuoso guitarist Ry ... song, "My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door," is an outburst of ragged junk blues—all grinding ...