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 ...

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.

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 ...

As a genius of mining the musical archives, Ry Cooder has no equal. He’s been finding new brilliance in old records since he began recording, and his achievements include not only his classic ...

Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs is getting ready to hit the road with his wife, singer Sharon White, and guitarist Ry Cooder for a joint tour. The trio will depart on the trek beginning on June 16 in ...

Rosanne Cash and Ry Cooder are teaming up for a five-city tour this summer/fall, performing the songs of Rosanne’s father, country icon Johnny Cash. “[Ry] and I had only performed together a few times ...

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) ...

Ry Cooder, who over the course of fifty years has become one of the most singular musicians in America, has a new record, “Election Special,” a collection of songs with a political cast, which comes ...

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 ...

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 ...