Paris, Texas' is one of Wim Wenders' finest accomplishments, but it wouldn't be so beautiful without the influence of Sam Shepard and a road trip.

Of course, other reasons some of the music, particularly the albums, remains forgotten are more or less the same as in the ...

Tracy Chapman, Björk, Public Enemy and more songs for rabble-rousing and celebrating revolution.

It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full ...

With the arrival of the large and expensive boxed set “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” (Columbia), out Friday, we have a better sense of how Mr. Springsteen spent what was perceived to be downtime: He ...

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 ...

Multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder is a revered curator of great folk and roots music from around the world, a Grammy winner, a soundtrack writer, producer, and a brilliant bottleneck slide guitar ...

A master of slide guitar, Ry Cooder brings the film to life with an atmospheric soundtrack that speaks profoundly to the imagery and story.

“The guitar duel scene with Ry Cooder wasn’t working. Ry called up Guitar Player and asked who the new hotshot on the block was”: Steve Vai on how he got the career-defining Crossroads gig ...

Irish and Mexican melodies are interwoven, with contributions from Mexican-American singers from Lila Downs to Linda Ronstadt, and a ballad from Ry Cooder, himself no mean social historian of the ...

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 ...