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Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
Jun 13, 2024 · Ry Cooder, American guitarist and singer whose influence far outweighed his limited commercial success. Cooder was preoccupied with subtleties of tone and texture. He mostly recorded other people’s music and was known for his numerous collaborations.
- Charlie Gillett
Nov 1, 2020 · That’s where I first heard the music (and, indeed, the unusual name) of Ryland Peter Cooder. It was early 1972 and Cooder’s second album Into The Purple Valley had just been released.
- Longevity. California-based multi-instrumentalist Ryland Peter Cooder has made his mark as a musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer and diviner of lost musical traditions.
- Technique. After a failed attempt at playing banjo with Bill Monroe and Doc Watson (“Son, you just ain’t ready,” Monroe told the teenager), Cooder applied the instrument’s tuning and three-finger-roll technique to guitar.
- Diversity. In the 1970s, as a solo artist, Cooder released a series of albums that excavated bygone musical genres. It culminated in 1979’s Bop Till You Drop, which provided him with his biggest hit, a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Little Sister.”
- 'Buena Vista Social Club' As producer of the 1997 hit album Buena Vista Social Club, Cooder revived interest in traditional Cuban music from the country’s pre-Castro era.
Apr 21, 2022 · Ryland Peter Cooder is the quintessential American Music iconoclast who spent more of his career creatively south of the border. Early American jazz and blues, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Cooder loved them all and delved deeply into each.
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (b. 1947) is a guitarist, singer and composer from the United States. He is known mostly for his slide guitar work, his passion for American roots music, and for his collaborations with the Rolling Stones, the Buena Vista Social Club and many other musicians from countries all around the world.
Ryland Peter (“Ry”) Cooder (born 15 March 1947) is a musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his slide guitar work, fingerstyle work, his unorthodox tunings and his...
