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His bizarrely modified and much loved old Fender Stratocaster even inspired a whole ... every guitarist really needs to hear… When most people think of Ry Cooder, they think of slide guitar and Get ...
Ry Cooder's iconic 1967 Fender Stratocaster is up for sale on Reverb for $150,000. With its many modifications, the Coodercaster is one of the most distinctive electric guitars in music history. The ...
Curiously, perhaps, Leo Fender, the Californian inventor ... to the Stratocaster played as slide guitar in the deft hands of Ry Cooder; do you know the poetic soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ 1984 ...
Rosanne Cash brought her father’s songbook. Ry Cooder brought Luther Perkins’ cream-colored 1955 Fender guitar. They met in the middle of the stage at the SFJazz Center on Thursday night ...
For Ry Cooder, it was never just about the 80-year-old Cubans. His new album, his first since his Havana period with the Buena Vista Social Club, already widely acclaimed by reviewers, emerges ...
However you define this thing called Americana, Ry Cooder is surely its godfather ... 1930s drag on Into The Purple Valley, or with a Fender Strat pressed against a mohair jacket on Bop Till ...
“We aren’t interested in carbon copies of these songs,” she said with her co-conspirator, guitarist Ry ... Cooder held aloft the very same guitar that Perkins once played – a ’55 Fender ...
"I'll never forget it." Ry Cooder is talking about his first encounter with a guitar, more than 50 years ago. The guitar was a three-quarter-size four-string tenor. Cooder was 4 years old ...
Gorgeously gritty guitar sounds waft through a north Santa Monica neighborhood on a recent morning. They emanate from a home studio and workshop, one where veteran musician Ry Cooder spends hours ...
Fender continues to craft hundreds of ... Or even, in a more laid back mood, to the Stratocaster played as slide guitar in the deft hands of Ry Cooder; do you know the poetic soundtrack to Wim ...