Ry Cooder News

Slide or bottleneck guitar is a style popularized by the Mississippi Delta blues men of the 1930s.

Slide guitarist Nick Vigarino performs a fusion of Chicago and Delta-style blues at the Rockfish Grill on Saturday.

Rhino takes a joy ride through Ry Cooder's prolific career with a two-CD collection of his work as a solo artist and soundtrack composer.

In 1996, Ry Cooder travelled to Cuba to produce the Grammy-winning record album Buena Vista Social Club , re-discovering some of the greatest Cuban popular musicians of the 1950's. In 1998, Cooder returned to ...

The ever-exploratory guitar master Ry Cooder released his final installment of a musical trilogy about California this summer, following Chavez Ravine and My Name is Buddy with I, Flathead -- an album that's ...

Local CBC recording crews just put the wraps on a summer that found the network's mobile recording truck parked at venues ranging from the Hawrelak Park Amphitheatre to the Winspear Centre and Gallagher Park, ...

HANS is probably Europe's No. 1 blues export, with 20 albums, a DVD and a guitar instruction DVD to his name - constantly on tour and delighting audiences around the world with his rich and emotional sounds.

Serious fans of singer Erykah Badu will want to catch her August 27 Chastain Park performance, where she'll sing in support of her critically-acclaimed new CD, New Amerykah'. BEHIND THE MUSIC: Lindley is a ...

Baltimore's popular Hot August Blues & Roots Festival is ready to unfurl the banners for its "sweet 16" anniversary party Saturday, Aug.

It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was eight years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing "Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was ...

MINNESOTA: None NY YANKEES: None TIME - 2:31 ; ATTENDANCE - 54114. UMPIRES: Home Plate - Mike DiMuro; First Base - Damien Beal; Second Base - Mike Everitt; Third Base - Tim McClelland.

It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing "Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was hooked.

Steel Town septet Rusted Root surfaces at House of Blues. This summer marks 20 years for the touring/recording festival favorites, whose roots rock leans more to bluegrass and afrobeat than Dead jams.

Ry Cooder: I, Flathead Ry Cooder has been a lot of things on the modern music scene for almost 40 years.

Ry Cooder has raised the bar for eccentricity since his great success producing the "Buena Vista Social Club" album just more than a decade ago.

Eclectic music artist Ry Cooder is "out there" on his new album "I, Flathead." Eclectic music artist Ry Cooder is "out there" on his new album "I, Flathead." "I, Flathead," Ry Cooder If anything made us doubt ...

Ry Cooder completes his intriguing California trilogy with "I, Flathead," another record that stands out for its lyricism and sounds a lot like a book set to music.

His four-decade career is simply amazing. Forty years ago, Ry Cooder proved his estimable musical abilities as a guitarist and songwriter by way of his group work with the likes of Taj Mahal and Captain ...

On "I, Flathead" Ry Cooder 's last in a trilogy of albums loosely focused on Southern California history, the man is really in his element.

IT'S 1955. On a night among many in a house in Santa Monica, California, an eight-year-old boy lies in his room listening to his favourite country music station.