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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 ...
SINATRA: Stories of Frank in the desert More memorable was the opportunity to record with the eclectic guitarist Ry Cooder on the 1976 groundbreaking album, “Chicken Skin Music.” ...
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Chicken Skin Music was marked by two distinct preoccupation's. Contributions from Flaco Jiminez and Gabby Pahuini enhanced its mixture of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian styles, while Cooder's seamless playing ...
Ry Cooder’s openness to musical exploration where egos were left at the door must have been an incredible apprenticeship. “Definitely,” Joachim says. “And that’s how I grew up.
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 ...
Both Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal saw McGhee and Terry play live many times and even spent time getting to know them personally in their later years. In a promotional video for the album, Mahal says that ...
Soulful musical polymath Taj Mahal and guitar god Ry Cooder go way back. In the mid-60s, they played in Los Angeles band the Rising Sons, one of the country’s first integrated bands fusing rock ...
Get On Board, by Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, is out now. “For me, there was nothing like that, and so records were the door that kept opening, you know, and trying to learn these things.
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.