Steve Vai has called starring in Crossraoads’ iconic guitar duel scene a pivotal moment in his career. Speaking in the latest issue of Guitar World, which uncovers the stories behind 1984’s most ...

Guitar great Ry Cooder, whose past collaborators range from Randy Newman and the Rolling Stones to Captain Beefheart and Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club, will open the 2018-2019 season at California ...

When MusicRadar's sister magazine Guitarist was granted a rare interview with slide guitar supremo Ry Cooder - who celebrates his birthday today - in 2012, we couldn't resist asking for his tips for ...

Multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder is a revered curator of great folk and roots music from around the world, a Grammy winner, a soundtrack writer, producer, and a brilliant bottleneck slide guitar player ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it was released in 1972, Boomer’s Story felt original, even though it contained no original material. As with much of Ry Cooder‘s work at the time, the influential LP features his versions of ...

Think music is one of the more apolitical arts? Try telling that to Ry Cooder. Next week, Cooder will release Mambo Sinuendo, an album of seductively menacing Cuban guitar music he recorded with ...

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 ...

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 made some of the most memorable film soundtrack music and this collection includes the wonderful Paris, Texas and The Long Riders. This review is of a compilation of his film work. When ...

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