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Ry Cooder's iconic 1967 Fender Stratocaster is up for sale on Reverb for $150,000. With its many modifications, the Coodercaster is one of the most distinctive electric guitars in music history. The ...
His bizarrely modified and much loved old Fender Stratocaster even inspired a whole ... every guitarist really needs to hear… When most people think of Ry Cooder, they think of slide guitar and Get ...
Curiously, perhaps, Leo Fender, the Californian inventor ... to the Stratocaster played as slide guitar in the deft hands of Ry Cooder; do you know the poetic soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ 1984 ...
"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 ...
Rosanne Cash brought her father’s songbook. Ry Cooder brought Luther Perkins’ cream-colored 1955 Fender guitar. They met in the middle of the stage at the SFJazz Center on Thursday night ...
However you define this thing called Americana, Ry Cooder is surely its godfather ... 1930s drag on Into The Purple Valley, or with a Fender Strat pressed against a mohair jacket on Bop Till ...
“We aren’t interested in carbon copies of these songs,” she said with her co-conspirator, guitarist Ry ... Cooder held aloft the very same guitar that Perkins once played – a ’55 Fender ...
“The guitar duel scene with Ry Cooder wasn’t working,” Vai recalls. “Ry Cooder [the film’s composer] called up Guitar Player and asked who the new hotshot on the block was.” Rumor has ...
Fender continues to craft hundreds of ... Or even, in a more laid back mood, to the Stratocaster played as slide guitar in the deft hands of Ry Cooder; do you know the poetic soundtrack to Wim ...