Multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder is a revered curator of great ... of pop and folk music’s great careers. These days, Cooder has a banjo in his hands again for concerts with his most recent ...

Hearing Ry Cooder talk is like listening to a musical ... "Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a social problem or ...

Ry Cooder’s here today ... And this was the kind of a song that people like Uncle Dave Macon with his banjo would write. Direct experience: I went down to the bank today and I couldn’t ...

a few banjo-inspired three finger rolls and lots of thumbed bass notes and you get a rhythm guitar parlance all of Cooder’s own. The track is also noteworthy because it comes with something rarely ...

Ry Cooder is on fire, his memory flicking through ... and aunts play musical instruments and you grow up hearing a style, banjo or guitar music, then it is natural for you. That is your world.

In terms of music and the concept, My Name Is Buddy isn’t as immediately impressive as Ry Cooder’s 2005 masterpiece ... Claw-hammer banjo strumming by brothers Pete and Mike Seeger, quiet ...

"My Name Is Buddy" is coolly billed as "Another record by Ry Cooder," as if it were a casual ... County coal miners to Pete Seeger, who plays banjo on the song "J. Edgar." "My Name Is Buddy ...

Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder is a rock chameleon ... to create a new style that's distinctively Cooder. The song's lazy banjo and junkyard rhythms effectively paint a portrait of hot workdays ...

Banjo music can be very hard-driving and fast ... It all just felt like a flowing river.” Ry Cooder’s openness to musical exploration where egos were left at the door must have been an ...

Veteran multi-instrumentalist/musical archivist Ry Cooder follows up his concept album Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch, 2005) with another narrative, My Name is Buddy. This time, with a similarly large cast ...

He had the fiddle, banjo and guitar, so he could fit into ... Of all my slide guitar heroes, Ry Cooder and David Lindley have touched me the most. David became a mentor with conversations that ...

“When I was a kid in high school in the ’60s, I got to know bluegrass,” Cooder said. “It began to appear on LPs and in folk festivals. Everybody went crazy for this. So, I bought a ban ...