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 ...

When Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris are sitting in the nightclub balcony, you can bet there's a heavy-duty act onstage. Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around 20 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

“So what the hell’s going on here? Where’s the tune? Where’s the melody? Where’s the poetry? Why is that so not in evidence?” – Ry Cooder It started with a question about melody. Why do certain tunes ...

At 69, Ry Cooder is out on the road with mandolinist Ricky Skaggs and singer Sharon White, performing a night of country, folk and bluegrass numbers from the 1960s and earlier. When they hit Tampa's ...

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 ...

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 tour in ...

“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,” ...

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 ...

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, ...