A second collection, Into The Purple Valley, established his vision more fully and introduced ... The world of music is better because Ry Cooder is in it. He is now among a small handful of artists ...

We've just finished discussing Ry Cooder's '55 Nash – "beautiful little car, designed by Farina" – and the yellow Buick on the cover of Into the Purple Valley, and we're on '59 Cadillac tail ...

Kai Ryssdal: Guitarist Ry Cooder has collaborated with everybody ... that has mostly defined his career. Albums like “Into the Purple Valley” from a long time ago and later “Chavez Ravine ...

Ry Cooder is talking about his first encounter ... Recalling his initial session on Cooder's 1971 album "Into the Purple Valley," Keltner notes, "the first thing that happened was -- and it ...

In 1972 Ry Cooder included the song “Denomination Blues” on his album “Into the Purple Valley,” introducing a new generation to the eccentric religious music of Washington Phillips.

However you define this thing called Americana, Ry Cooder is surely its godfather ... but one look at cover shots of him in 1930s drag on Into The Purple Valley, or with a Fender Strat pressed ...

Rosanne Cash has announced a limited run of special shows honoring her father’s music alongside Ry ... Cooder, who covered Cash’s “Hey Porter” on his classic 1972 album Into the Purple ...

I can’t write briefly about Ry Cooder ... like to some of Cooder’s earlier recordings, among them “Billy the Kid,” and “Money Honey” from “Into the Purple Valley,” released ...

IN PICTURES: Ry Cooder: 15 essential songs Cooder's ... His second collection, Into The Purple Valley, established his vision more fully and introduced long-standing collaborators Jim Keltner ...

For Ry Cooder ... artists, Cooder tells the story of a small Mexican American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Chavez Ravine, that was bulldozed by developers and eventually turned into Dodger ...

That aside, sonically most of My Name Is Buddy sits nicely alongside Cooder s classics Into The Purple Valley and Boomer s Story although unfortunately with little of his trademark slide guitar.