For Ry Cooder, it was never just about the 80-year-old Cubans. His new album, his first since his Havana period with the Buena Vista Social Club, already widely acclaimed by reviewers, emerges from a ...

One is right to be suspect of any music writer who pens a phrase even remotely similar to "local music fans are really in for a treat when (artist's name here) plays a rare show at (venue's name here) ...

But I had just started college, and with my small-town Wisconsin upbringing, I was only answering to the idea of a musician’s life, something I wasn’t fully certain was even possible. Where I came ...

Martin Chilton is a former Culture Editor for The Telegraph. He was formerly Sports Editor and a columnist for the Evening Standard. Prior to this Martin has edited music books and magazines and ...

"I'll never forget it." Ry Cooder is talking about his first encounter with a guitar, more than 50 years ago. The guitar was a three-quarter-size four-string tenor. Cooder was 4 years old, well into a ...

Rosanne Cash has announced a limited run of special shows honoring her father’s music alongside Ry Cooder. The shows, titled Cash and Cooder on Cash: The Music of Johnny Cash, will take place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sited well north of the 210 freeway on a wide, tree-lined street, the new Cooder property is mostly invisible to passersby, ...

Gorgeously gritty guitar sounds waft through a north Santa Monica neighborhood on a recent morning. They emanate from a home studio and workshop, one where veteran musician Ry Cooder spends hours ...

Early in a thoroughly exhilarating performance Sunday in Escondido on his Prodigal Son tour, guitarist, singer, songwriter and keeper of the roots-music flame Ry Cooder performed “Straight Street,” ...