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 ...

Soulful musical polymath Taj Mahal and guitar god Ry Cooder go way back. In the mid-60s, they played in Los Angeles band the Rising Sons, one of the country’s first integrated bands fusing rock and ...

Early in a thoroughly exhilarating performance Sunday in Escondido on his Prodigal Son tour, guitarist, singer, songwriter and keeper of the roots-music flame Ry Cooder performed “Straight Street,” ...

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 ...

For Ry Cooder, records were not only a first love, but an escape. As a boy growing up in Santa Monica, Calif. in the 1950's, listening to records was a lens into a wider world. He says the first ...

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 ...

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”The moment I read the story, I knew I had to do this movie,” says guitarist Ry Cooder, the man behind the music for the fine new film on the blues and its legacy, ”Crossroads.” The movie, which ...

It's unlikely Ry Cooder would have much truck with the idea of a recommended retirement age. The 66-year-old Californian says he is playing better than ever, with finer co-ordination than when he was ...

Guitarist/producer/singer-songwriter Ry Cooder (of Buena Vista Social Club fame) has earned high praise for his recent string of solo albums, which often take on an ...