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 ...

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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 ...

Big Legs Tight Skirt (featuring Ry Cooder, Ike Turner) Don't Look Back (featuring Van Morrison) Up And Down (featuring Johnnie Johnson) John Lee Hooker 's 1998 album The Best Of Friends lives up to ...

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, “Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee” (Nonesuch). Columbia Records signed Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder for the band the Rising Sons in 1965.

There’s no doubting that both Mahal and Cooder are learned purists when it comes to the rich history of American music, and throughout Get On Board there’s a tangible sense of two old friends ...

The latest collaboration from folk-blues veterans Taj Majal and Ry Cooder is both a history lesson and celebration of their musical forbears.

Ry Cooder was jamming with Taj Mahal and a crack band of musicians at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium eight years ago on the same night Mahal received the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime ...

Music Blues Tradition Feels Viscerally Alive On Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder’s ‘Get On Board’ The veteran Americana musicians honor the past, and shake it up.

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 ...