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 ...

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,” ...

LOS ANGELES - Rhino takes a joy ride through Ry Cooder's prolific career with a two-CD collection of his work as a solo artist and soundtrack composer. On October 28, THE UFO HAS LANDED: THE RY COODER ...

“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,” ...

But I had just started college, and with my small-town Wisconsin upbringing, I was only answering to the idea of a musician’s life, something I wasn’t fully certain was even possible. Where I came ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a rare configuration of talent that involves a combined 20 Grammy Awards. Guitarist Ry Cooder has joined forces with bluegrass icon Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, of ’80s country band ...

One is right to be suspect of any music writer who pens a phrase even remotely similar to "local music fans are really in for a treat when (artist's name here) plays a rare show at (venue's name here) ...

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 ...

World-renowned guitarist Ry Cooder, country music songbird Sharon White and country and bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs are combining forces for a national road show. Today, the three music vets ...

The world of music is better because Ry Cooder is in it. He is now among a small handful of artists writing the book on how to keep pushing musical boundaries past the age of senior citizenship, ...