“Way back in the ’50s, there was this radio station, KXLA, that was for the people from the South who had come out and settled here after the war and were working in the car and tire factories ...

Ry Cooder: 5 Songs Guitarists ... ‘Life happens’: New England couple with state pensions had their early retirement shattered by sudden medical expenses and inflation — 3 ways to prepare ...

Hearing Ry Cooder talk is like listening to a musical history lesson. When he spoke to Here & Now's Robin Young, he talked about being influenced by Uncle Dave Macon, a pioneer in country music ...

Arvizu doesn't perform often because she uses a large band to reproduce the sound of the album Cooder produced, "Friend for Life." She raised the money from donations to underwrite the $5,000 ...

By the time I was 19 years old, my fate was sealed. A musician’s life was knocking, and I was eager to answer. But I had just started college, and with my small-town Wisconsin upbringing, I was ...

Ry Cooder sings of empathy, compassion ... of hundreds of Latino families in the late ’50s and early ’60s to make way for ... consists of several gospel songs he’s known most of his life, ...

The album's allegorical overtones allow Cooder to explore working-class life and the importance of regional music in America's identity. Sponsor Message This segment originally aired on Mar. 6, 2007.

Early in a thoroughly exhilarating performance Sunday in Escondido on his Prodigal Son tour, guitarist, singer, songwriter and keeper of the roots-music flame Ry Cooder performed “Straight ...

For Ry Cooder, the Buena Vista ... Cooder's life seems to be a quest for exquisite period-style in cars, ... After the group broke up, amid alcohol and illness, in the early Seventies, ...

Ry Cooder—the guitar wizard, songwriter, film-score composer, itinerant scholar and interpreter of soulful sounds from around the world and his own back yard—always disliked being the main ...

In the early part of his career, during the 1960s, master guitarist Ry Cooder could walk down any street in the US and not be recognised. Born in Santa Monica, as a young guitar prodigy he played ...

Ry Cooder is off on a rant. "I cannot understand how records have fallen so down," grumbles the legendary guitarist, calling from his home in Santa Monica, Calif. "The perfect thing is the record ...