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Ry Cooder. Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
Oct 1, 2024 · Ry Cooder, American guitarist and singer whose influence far outweighed his limited commercial success. Cooder was preoccupied with subtleties of tone and texture. He mostly recorded other people’s music and was known for his numerous collaborations.
- Charlie Gillett
Mar 29, 2023 · Here’s how it works. With “a thimbleful of ambition”, Californian singer-guitarist Ry Cooder has travelled further than most over the past six decades. Throughout the 70s and into the early 80s, Cooder’s remarkable run of solo albums established him as one of America’s great adventurers.
- Longevity. California-based multi-instrumentalist Ryland Peter Cooder has made his mark as a musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer and diviner of lost musical traditions.
- Technique. After a failed attempt at playing banjo with Bill Monroe and Doc Watson (“Son, you just ain’t ready,” Monroe told the teenager), Cooder applied the instrument’s tuning and three-finger-roll technique to guitar.
- Diversity. In the 1970s, as a solo artist, Cooder released a series of albums that excavated bygone musical genres. It culminated in 1979’s Bop Till You Drop, which provided him with his biggest hit, a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Little Sister.”
- 'Buena Vista Social Club' As producer of the 1997 hit album Buena Vista Social Club, Cooder revived interest in traditional Cuban music from the country’s pre-Castro era.
Jun 25, 2018 · Ry Cooder—the guitar wizard, songwriter, film-score composer, itinerant scholar and interpreter of soulful sounds from around the world and his own back yard—always disliked being the main dude...
- Nick Paumgarten
Oct 29, 2014 · But here’s the full interview transcript – it runs close to 5,00 words, and covers Performance, his marvellous collaborations with Hill, scoring Paris, Texas and – joy of joys – Cooder ...
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Jul 20, 2024 · Ry Cooder: Ry Cooder & Corridos Famosos - Live in San Francisco. Ryland Peter Cooder is the quintessential American Music iconoclast who spent more of his career creatively south of the border. Early American jazz and blues, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Cooder loved them all and delved deeply into each.
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