There are so many references to God, Jesus, sin, saviors, righteousness and judgment in veteran roots musician Ry Cooder’s forthcoming album “The Prodigal Son,” it’s fair to wonder whether the ...

Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know); Why Don't You Try Me; Boomer's Story; Lord Tell Me Why; Do Re Mi; School Is Out; Dark End of the Street; El Corrido de Jesse James"; Wooly Bully; Volver ...

But I had just started college, and with my small-town Wisconsin upbringing, I was only answering to the idea of a musician’s life, something I wasn’t fully certain was even possible. Where I came ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder has been described as a singer-songwriter, slide guitar hero, session musician to so many other artists, producer, musicologist and historian, a man beholden to no single style, a champion ...

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’s sole ...

It’s a rare configuration of talent that involves a combined 20 Grammy Awards. Guitarist Ry Cooder has joined forces with bluegrass icon Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, of ’80s country band ...

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 third-grader with a guitar was ...

When Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris are sitting in the nightclub balcony, you can bet there's a heavy-duty act onstage. Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around 20 ...

While his own recordings have taken an unexpected literary turn, guitarist-musicologist Ry Cooder has trained his attention as a producer on the rediscovery of Latina vocalist Ersi Arvizu, one of the ...

Crazy ’Bout an Automobile; Why Don’t You Try Me; Boomer’s Story; Lord Tell Me Why; Do Re Mi; School Is Out; The Dark End of the Street; El Corrido de Jesse James; Wooly Bully; Volver Volver; Vigilante ...