Back to the banjo: Ry Cooder returns to his early instrument Trio with Ricky Scaggs and Sharon White, plus pianist Buck White, to play Harvester Performance Center Aug. 20.

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

Joachim Cooder can hardly deny his family roots. Having been a percussionist from a young age on many landmark projects by his father, Ry, including The Buena Vista Social Club and A Meeting by ...

Ry Cooder once likened his playing – a sublime amalgam of American folk and blues, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, the Tex-Mex zest of conjunto and the regal sensuality of Afro-Cuban son – as “some kind of ...

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 ...

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, “Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee” (Nonesuch). Columbia Records signed Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder for the band the Rising Sons in 1965.

The latest collaboration from folk-blues veterans Taj Majal and Ry Cooder is both a history lesson and celebration of their musical forbears.

Ry Cooder was jamming with Taj Mahal and a crack band of musicians at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium eight years ago on the same night Mahal received the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime ...

Music Blues Tradition Feels Viscerally Alive On Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder’s ‘Get On Board’ The veteran Americana musicians honor the past, and shake it up.