How a devastating childhood accident and chance encounters with legends helped Ry Cooder become one of guitar’s most influential stylists

The guitarist would help define the Rolling Stones’ late-‘60s shift to country rock and bring Cuban music to a global audience ...
KCRW

Chavez Ravine--Ry Cooder and LA History, Set to Music

When Ry Cooder revived the Buena Vista Social Club, he focused a lot of attention on life in Cuba since the Communist Revolution. His latest album re-visits a sad chapter of Los Angeles history, the ...
KCRW

Ry Cooder; Beijing Architecture

Kurt Andersen talks with singer, guitarist, and composer Ry Cooder. They talk about his new album I, Flathead, inspired by the 1960's drag racing culture and set on the desert salt flats of California ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A half-century into his career, Ry Cooder is all about country

Musician Ry Cooder poses alongside a custom-built ice cream truck commissioned by him and featuring a mural of Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine by artist Vincent Valdez, at the Petersen Automotive Museum in ...