But the song can bypass all that, you know. Ry Cooder (L) in the Marketplace studio with Kai Ryssdal Ryssdal: Was there a moment in the last three years, I mean, what was the moment when you said ...

Over the course of his illustrious career, visionary guitarist/producer Ry Cooder has been one of the most prolific and restlessly creative forces in contemporary music. For a period of over four ...

“He had already been doing these things,” Ry said ... to complement the vintage gospel songs. The new ones include “Shrinking Man,” in which Cooder makes the case for simpler ways ...

Ry Cooder may have done the impossible. He persuaded Rosanne Cash to devote a series of concerts – including a June 18 date at the Chicago Theatre — to songs written, performed or made famous ...

And before long, the Rolling Stones were collecting royalties for “Honky Tonk Women,” which sounds precisely like a Ry Cooder song and absolutely nothing like any other song ever produced by ...

“We aren’t interested in carbon copies of these songs,” she said with her co-conspirator, guitarist Ry Cooder. “So hang on tight.” She wasn’t kidding. Boundaries got ...

But you sense it was Ry Cooder's last commercial accommodation. "Those songs are good . . . wicked songs," he says of Little Village's one album. "The good part of it was the song creation.

On days like this, Ry Cooder would just as soon tuck himself ... Not only is there this new song, Cooder has now decided against the film (too costly, too time-consuming). The record has been ...

IN PICTURES: Ry Cooder: 15 essential songs Cooder's skill – playing blues, folk, rock, soul and jazz on acoustic, electric and bottleneck guitar – has been inspirational. A concert in London ...

One of the few popular musicians I can think of who has done so happily (besides George Harrison) is Ry Cooder ... Initially, Cooder was a kind of archivist of American songs, particularly ...