The late Alexander Dumble built only a handful of meticulously crafted, much-sought-after amplifiers every year – and they ended up in the backlines of many of the greatest guitarists of all time. So ...

Veteran musician Ry Cooder largely avoids politics on his new gospel music-centric album, 'The Prodigal Son,' which emphasizes empathy, and great guitar work ...

Cooder and his band re-imagine some of those classic blues and gospel songs he loved as boy. He discusses how his latest album 'Prodigal Son' is ultimately about reverence.

When Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris are sitting in the nightclub balcony, you can bet there's a heavy-duty act onstage. Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around ...

Ry Cooder’s first live record in thirty-five years reflect some of his concerns over the past three decades or so.

Joachim Cooder can hardly deny his family roots. Having been a percussionist from a young age on many landmark projects by his father, Ry, including The Buena Vista Social Club and A Meeting by ...

Ry Cooder coaxes El Chicano's Ersi Arvizu back from a long break.

For Ry Cooder, the Buena Vista Social Club was just the overture. With some very fine musicians, and a little help from Bill Clinton, he has produced two more great Cuban albums. Philip Sweeney ...

For Ry Cooder, it was never just about the 80-year-old Cubans. His new album, his first since his Havana period with the Buena Vista Social Club, already widely acclaimed by reviewers, emerges ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder will be in conversation with Los Angeles Times’ book critic David Ulin about his new book “Los Angeles Stories,” this Sunday, November 6th at Skylight Books.

Then, without warning, an American musician called Ry Cooder dropped into their lives and persuaded them to play on an album of Cuban music that made them rich and famous.