The painting also captivated the musician Ry Cooder, who at the time was working on “Chavez Ravine,” a 2005 Grammy-nominated concept album inspired by the story of a longstanding Mexican ...

Jazz musician Ry Cooder's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

Bemoaning what happened in Chavez Ravine is part of the modern L.A. gospel. I’ve read essays by former residents decrying what happened, read books and seen plays and documentaries that captured their ...

“Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting,” through Aug. 4. “Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine,” through Aug. 11. “Ed Ruscha/Now Then,” through Oct. 6.

Ry Cooder’s Chávez Ravine was my sleeper album of 2005, and its unique, dirty, gritty flavor oozed out of the Gibbon 3s like the bean and cheese from a good burrito. It burns your skin and stains like ...

LACMA debuts Vincent Valdez’s oil painting El Chavez Ravine (2005–7), which was recently added to the museum’s permanent collection through a gift from musician Ry Cooder.

For more than 40 years, Ry Cooder has shown his prowess as a gifted musical jack-of-all-trades. His latest release, Chavez Ravine, is a concept album dealing with the demise of the Mexican-American ...

Poor Man’s Shangri-La, from Cooder’s 2005 concept album Chavez Ravine, transports the listener to a bygone era of “cool cats”, UFO sightings, Chicano culture and corporate greed in post-war Los ...

After the occasionally rewarding, but hard, haul through his concept albums Chavez Ravine, My Name is Buddy and I Flathead, Cooder re-enters the present by taking a hot poker to Wall St greed and ...

The Prodigal Son (Fantasy Recordings, USA) has put aside his more politically engaged music -- as heard on a series of albums, Chavez Ravine (2005), My Name Is Buddy (2007), Pull Up Some Dust And ...