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Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
- Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club is a studio album by Buena Vista...
- Rising Sons
History. The original lineup was a 17-year-old Ry Cooder...
- Borderline
Robert Christgau wrote that "Cooder's current soul/r&b...
- The Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son is a 2018 studio album, the sixteenth to be...
- Buena Vista Social Club
Apr 25, 2022 · Interview. ‘The past is immaterial’: Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, reunited after 56 years. Robin Denselow. At 75 and 80 years old, the much-loved musicians have finally re-formed to pay tribute to...
- Longevity. California-based multi-instrumentalist Ryland Peter Cooder has made his mark as a musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer and diviner of lost musical traditions.
- Technique. After a failed attempt at playing banjo with Bill Monroe and Doc Watson (“Son, you just ain’t ready,” Monroe told the teenager), Cooder applied the instrument’s tuning and three-finger-roll technique to guitar.
- Diversity. In the 1970s, as a solo artist, Cooder released a series of albums that excavated bygone musical genres. It culminated in 1979’s Bop Till You Drop, which provided him with his biggest hit, a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Little Sister.”
- 'Buena Vista Social Club' As producer of the 1997 hit album Buena Vista Social Club, Cooder revived interest in traditional Cuban music from the country’s pre-Castro era.
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Jun 25, 2018 · June 25, 2018. Ry Cooder—the guitar wizard, songwriter, film-score composer, itinerant scholar and interpreter of soulful sounds from around the world and his own back yard—always disliked ...
- Nick Paumgarten
May 13, 2024 · Cooder gleans inspiration from further back, too, digging up gems from his early years spent absorbing anthologies of folk, hillbilly and roots on radio and vinyl during a lonely purgatorial period.
Apr 16, 1981 · Ry Cooder’s Roots. From Tex-Mex to R&B — looking to the past for fame and fortune. By James Henke. April 16, 1981. Ry Cooder, Hammersmith Odeon, Circa November 1980 Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty ...
