The guitarist would help define the Rolling Stones’ late-‘60s shift to country rock and bring Cuban music to a global audience ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs is getting ready to hit the road with his wife, singer Sharon White, and guitarist Ry Cooder for a joint tour. The trio will depart on the trek beginning on June 16 in ...

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 ...

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.

Rosanne Cash has announced a limited run of special shows honoring her father’s music alongside Ry Cooder. The shows, titled Cash and Cooder on Cash: The Music of Johnny Cash, will take place ...

Ry Cooder, who over the course of fifty years has become one of the most singular musicians in America, has a new record, “Election Special,” a collection of songs with a political cast, which comes ...

Rosanne Cash and Ry Cooder are teaming up for a five-city tour this summer/fall, performing the songs of Rosanne’s father, country icon Johnny Cash. “[Ry] and I had only performed together a few times ...

“Way back in the ’50s, there was this radio station, KXLA, that was for the people from the South who had come out and settled here after the war and were working in the car and tire factories,” ...

Joachim Cooder can hardly deny his family roots. Having been a percussionist from a young age on many landmark projects by his father, Ry, including The Buena Vista Social Club and A Meeting by the ...

What is a Gold Foil pickup exactly? Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer, because the only feature common to all Gold Foil pickups is a layer of textured-foil covered paper or cloth ...