Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steve Vai performs at the Limelight in Chicago, Illinois on June 27, 1987. Steve Vai has called starring in Crossraoads’ iconic ...

Guitar great Ry Cooder, whose past collaborators range from Randy Newman and the Rolling Stones to Captain Beefheart and Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club, will open the 2018-2019 season at California ...

Ry Cooder has been telling stories with his guitar for the past five decades. Starting in the 1960’s, his work with Captain Beefheart, Randy Newman, The Rolling Stones and others brought slide guitar ...

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 ...

Ry Cooder has a new lease on life, musically speaking, and the legendary guitarist and roots-music champion couldn’t be more delighted about his first album in six years and his first concert tour in ...

When MusicRadar's sister magazine Guitarist was granted a rare interview with slide guitar supremo Ry Cooder - who celebrates his birthday today - in 2012, we couldn't resist asking for his tips for ...

Mambo Sinuendo Nonesuch, $18.98 . Imagine the scenes David Lynch could make of this. Ry Cooder's latest Cuban mood swing -- an enterprising collaboration with Manuel Galban, guitarist and arranger for ...

Following his own creative nose, Cooder went on to make 16 solo albums (so far), numerous movie soundtracks and more collaborations than we could possibly count. His bizarrely modified and much loved ...

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 ...