“The guitar duel scene with Ry Cooder wasn’t working,” Vai recalls. “Ry Cooder [the film’s composer] called up Guitar Player and asked who the new hotshot on the block was.” ...

Tied for the role of the Foo Fighters leader's all-time favourite musician, Dave Grohl believes that slide guitarist Ry ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 been telling stories with his guitar for the past five decades. Starting in the 1960’s, his work with Captain Beefheart, Randy Newman, The Rolling Stones and others brought slide ...

Of all my slide guitar heroes, Ry Cooder and David Lindley have touched me the most. David became a mentor with conversations that were equal parts information, advice and comedic relief.” ...

His own 1970 solo debut revealed Cooder's thunderous bottleneck playing, a verbose, raucous guitar sound that would serve as a touchstone throughout all his rock records.

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 ...

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 ...