By Billboard Staff “I’d hate to say this whole Cuban experience is at an end for me,” Ry Cooder says ... Due Jan. 28, it is the first album to appear on Cooder’s own Perro Verde ...

With the success of the Cuban recordings, this would have seemed an opportunity for Cooder to do an album completely his ... Back in time, to Chavez Ravine Ry Cooder is at work on still another ...

The two new Cooder Cuban CD releases arrived together ... Ibrahim Ferrer's and Cachaito Lopez's solo albums. And also elevation to the pantheon of Ry Cooder musical classics, for his guitar ...

WASHINGTON — Musician Ry Cooder, who was once ... and recording such aging Cuban virtuosos as Ibrahim Ferrer, who starred on the first “Buena Vista” album. In August, the government said ...

The Cuban Connection In 1996 Cooder went to Cuba ... The thing you're not likely to see is an old-fashioned Ry Cooder album. The last one to carry just his name was 1987's "Get Rhythm," and ...

Most notably, he brought traditional Cuban music to the ears of millions with 1997's ... in the 1950s in the name of 'development' (you may have noticed by now that Ry Cooder albums don’t tend to be ...

American guitarist Ry Cooder says his latest collaboration with Cuban musicians could be his last. Cooder helped put the country on the musical map after bringing together a group of Cuban musicans to ...

While Ry Cooder garnered much of the attention ... by Havana-born bandleader Juan de Marcos to record an album of classic Cuban Son and bolero music. When Cooder arrived, his plan had been to ...

Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance ... In a series of albums he recorded during the '70s and '80s, Cooder fused folkloric musical ideas with rock sensibilities in a unique blend ...

Here are seven summer-ready albums. By Judy Cantor-Navas ... made a comeback with the Afro Cuban All Stars before being cast by Ry Cooder for Buena Vista. The All Stars, led by Buena Vista A ...

It would be unfair, perhaps, to call Ry Cooder’s latest effort merely an album. “Chavez Ravine ... of the Buena Vista Social Club and its Cuban music revival. The tremendous success of ...

Two decades ago Ry Cooder and Nick Gold produced a series of recordings with long-forgotten veterans of Cuban music under ... Next to Ferrer’s superb 2003 album Buenos Hermanos, my favorite ...