Multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder is a revered curator of great folk and roots music from around the world, a Grammy winner, a soundtrack writer, producer, and a brilliant bottleneck slide guitar player ...

Steve Vai has called starring in Crossraoads’ iconic guitar duel scene a pivotal moment in his career. Speaking in the latest issue of Guitar World, which uncovers the stories behind 1984’s most ...

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 ...

On Friday night, Bob Dylan arrived at ACL Live at The Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas, for the first of two nights at the choice Lone Star State location. Both evenings, April 5 and 6, were embellished ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder records are never about Ry Cooder. Yet his new album, "Chavez Ravine," may be the musician's most personal work to date. It's a moving, musically rich requiem for a vanished neighborhood ...