Following his own creative nose, Cooder went on to make 16 solo albums (so far), numerous movie soundtracks and more collaborations than we could possibly count. His bizarrely modified and much loved ...

"I'll never forget it." Ry Cooder is talking about his first encounter with a guitar, more than 50 years ago. The guitar was a three-quarter-size four-string tenor. Cooder was 4 years old, well into a ...

Ry Cooder has a new lease on life, musically speaking, and the legendary guitarist and roots-music champion couldn’t be more delighted about his first album in six years and his first concert tour in ...

For Ry Cooder, it was never just about the 80-year-old Cubans. His new album, his first since his Havana period with the Buena Vista Social Club, already widely acclaimed by reviewers, emerges from a ...

Ry Cooder is on fire, his memory flicking through the years as the renowned Californian singer/guitarist recalls the first time he saw the great blues duo, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. "So Ed Pearl ...

A '67 Strat with a lot of modifications and even more history behind it When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ry Cooder's iconic 1967 ...

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Ry Cooder may have done the impossible. He persuaded Rosanne Cash to devote a series of concerts – including a June 18 date at the Chicago Theatre — to songs written, performed or made famous by her ...

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 ...

Let’s start with the hands, Ry Cooder’s hands. They’re large, expressive, hands you could see wrapped around a guitar neck or in the act of making things. They move when he speaks, creating shapes in ...