When Ry Cooder revived the Buena Vista Social Club, he focused a lot of attention on life in Cuba since the Communist Revolution. His latest album re-visits a sad chapter of Los Angeles history, the ...

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 ...

***** Ry Cooder, Trespass soundtrack (Sire/Warner): When it comes to soundtracks, guitarist Ry Cooder is one of the masters. With Trespass, he again evokes mood and atmosphere as vividly as a director ...

Ry Cooder got religion -- of a sort -- recently, which led to The Prodigal Son, his first new solo album in six years. By Gary Graff Ry Cooder got religion — of a sort — recently, which led to The ...

Of course, Ry Cooder really is all that. People toss the word "genius" around far too often and too easily, but Cooder has more than earned that distinction with a long and consistently adventurous ...

In terms of music and the concept, My Name Is Buddy isn’t as immediately impressive as Ry Cooder’s 2005 masterpiece Chavez Ravine, a graceful tribute to Los Angeles neighborhoods leveled in the name ...

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 ...

Joachim Cooder (son of guitarist Ry Cooder) enlists many of his friends on his solo debut. Love on a Real Train is a thoughtful cycle of songs inspired by the view from his Echo Park studio at sunset.

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.