The track is also noteworthy because it comes with something rarely seen in the early days: a Ry Cooder songwriting credit. ‘Tattler’ was based on a 1929 Washington Phillips song called ‘You Can't ...

Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around 20 years Thursday at the Great American Music Hall qualifies as a major event to a small but select circle, who snapped up $100 tickets to ...

Ry Cooder It started with a question about melody. Why do certain tunes endure? We had been discussing the entire arc of popular songs as we know it up to then, from blues and country through the ...

Ry Cooder has been described as a singer-songwriter ... and the prodigal son left home and then he came back — and end of song," Cooder says. "But what happened in the meantime when he was ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

I got better at doing it." "He's a guy who loves music," says Jim Keltner, the veteran drummer and Cooder collaborator. "Ry loves the eras when people played with great dynamics and feeling.

More than half a century later, inspired both by Normark's pictures and his own memories of east Los Angeles as it once was, the guitarist Ry ... Cooder quickly realised that he was gathering more ...