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 ...

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 ...

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A master of slide guitar, Ry Cooder brings the film to life with an atmospheric soundtrack that speaks profoundly to the imagery and story.

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 ...

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 once likened his playing – a sublime amalgam of American folk and blues, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, the Tex-Mex zest of conjunto and the regal sensuality of Afro-Cuban son – as “some kind of ...

Two Black teenage girls from New Orleans could be the first mathematicians in at least 2000 years to find trigonometric proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.

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 ...

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.

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 ...