While no one will confuse Gavin Rossdale, Joe Elliott, or Mick Jagger with a Yankee, they each front groups with a distinctly American sound.

Mavis Staples continues to inspire with her music and legacy. The legendary singer is back on the road, celebrating her 86th birthday.

Casey Chong with ten great neo-Western movies you need to see… The old-fashioned John Wayne era of Western movies may be long ...

It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full ...

Ry Cooder has a brand new album out - just a year after Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down he's released Election Special.It's strange to call Cooder prolific here, because throughout the 1960s, 70s ...

Ry Cooder: 5 Songs Guitarists Need To Hear. More for You. Trump Drags Hurricane Helene into the Election Campaign ‘Life happens’: New England couple with state pensions had their early ...

Joachim Cooder is recalling the day he joined his father, one Ry Cooder, for a session in Clinton Recording Studios in New York in 1994 with The Chieftains and the late, great Sinéad O’Connor ...

Get On Board, by Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, is out now. Credit: “For me, there was nothing like that, and so records were the door that kept opening, you know, and trying to learn these things.

Ry Cooder is on fire, his memory flicking through the years as the renowned Californian singer/guitarist recalls the first time he saw the great blues duo, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

By his late teens, Ry Cooder had already become a sought-after guitarist in Los Angeles and had formed a band with Taj Mahal called Rising Sons. As a session musician, he lent his bottleneck skills to ...

“Ry Cooder” is a spare song, with Callahan intoning over just a couple of acoustic guitars. It seems to be a loving depiction of Cooder. (First line: “Ry Cooder, he’s a real straight ...