Here’s how it works. When MusicRadar's sister magazine Guitarist was granted a rare interview with slide guitar supremo Ry Cooder - who celebrates his birthday today - in 2012, we couldn't resist ...

Here, we take a trip back through some of the great man’s defining tracks of the last half century that every guitarist really needs to hear… When most people think of Ry Cooder, they think of slide ...

Of course, he sounded amazing, and that fired me up. Of all my slide guitar heroes, Ry Cooder and David Lindley have touched me the most. David became a mentor with conversations that were equal ...

originally scripted to be a slide guitar battle in keeping with the record’s blues theme, wasn't as effective as the movie's producers had envisioned. “The guitar duel scene with Ry Cooder ...

Ry Cooder is talking about his first encounter ... Its atmospheric acoustic bottleneck slide guitar sound -- Cooder's homage to Blind Willie Johnson -- has been so widely copied, from other ...

Slide guitar was fairly common among the solo acoustic ... Johnny Shines, Son House, Ry Cooder, Bob Brozman, Hound Dog Taylor, Taj Mahal, Lowell George, Keb' Mo', Sonny Landreth and Derek Trucks ...

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 ...

Slide guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder and blues musician Taj Mahal started their careers together. They formed the Rising Sons and signed to Columbia in 1965 but disbanded a year later, and the group ...

Ryland Peter Cooder ... It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing “Hey Porter." A ...

Guitar hero Ry Cooder was making a rare Twin Cities appearance ... The jazzy passage on the country waltz "Sweet Temptation," the twangy slide on the train song "Pan American Boogie," the tremolo ...

Fluent on guitar and any number of stringed instruments, David Lindley shaped the sound of California's classic-rock era Guitar Player Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt share tales of his ...