His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

An introduction to the world of Ry Cooder and his debut album on Warner Bros Records Cooder talks about old movies trailers and the lay of the land And most of all ...

. The six-time Grammy winner is a hired gun guitarist, album producer, songwriter and soundtrack composer, but he is best known for his production credits with the Buena Vista Social Club and the ...

The Egg is billing Sunday’s (November 15) concert by Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White & Friends as Ry Cooder’s first live performance in decades. “I don’t think Sharon had the vaguest idea who I ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder once likened his playing – a sublime amalgam of American folk and blues, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, the Tex-Mex zest of conjunto and the regal sensuality of Afro-Cuban son – as “some kind of ...

The new LP, which is set for release on April 22, is the duo’s first collaboration in more than a half-century. To celebrate the announcement, the two musicians have released a new live video for the ...

Today in the Tuesday music feature we're turning our attention to Ry Cooder's 2005 album 'Chavez Revine.' To celebrate the album turning 20, Jesse is joined by RNZ Operations Team Lead and host of two ...

There is an African proverb that says "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The intimacy and the dynamics of the duet setting have long appealed to virtuoso guitarist ...