Steve Vai actually battled himself as he played both parts of the duel except when their was slide guitar. Ry Cooder did the honors then. Jimmy Page wanted the part but Cooder picked Vai. Vai played ...
Ryland Peter Cooder, 15 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of popular music's premier talents, Cooder mastered the rudiments of guitar while still a child. He learned the techniques of ...
It’s one of those grim afternoons when the whole of L.A. seems to have simply up and vanished; disappeared behind a dirty, gray scrim of smog and haze. You could have sworn you saw it just a moment ...
Hearing Ry Cooder talk is like listening to a musical history lesson. When he spoke to Here & Now's Robin Young, he talked about being influenced by Uncle Dave Macon, a pioneer in country music.
Cooder-White-Skaggs, the powerhouse trio featuring Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White and Ry Cooder, will bring its “Songs for the Good People” tour to the State Theatre of Ithaca at 8 p.m. Saturday.
When it comes to musical genres, Ry Cooder can play just about anything — and does. From rock ‘n’ roll to country to Dixieland jazz, Cooder has mastered multiple genres on many albums. He does it ...
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 ...
The original 1997 Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club CD and its many spin-offs brought together aging stars to reimagine the bygone music scene of Havana, Cuba, in the 1940s and '50s. Similarly, ...
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 ...