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 ...

No matter the genre, tribute albums tend toward the reverent, as if the musicians and singers doing the saluting don’t want to appear even remotely disrespectful toward their subjects. Thankfully, ...

Interview and story by Don Wilcock 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 ...

Slide guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder and blues musician Taj Mahal started their careers together. They formed the Rising Sons and signed to Columbia in 1965 but disbanded a year later, and the group’s sole ...

Playing soon at a cafe near you: Ry Cooder. Not in person, alas. But Cooder's latest disc, the wonderfully laid-back and loungy "Mambo Sinuendo," seems destined for heavy rotation in cool coffee shops ...

To describe this record is not to do it justice: Vula Viel are a three-piece investigating the possibilities of the Ghanaian xylophone (the gyil), using it to explore minimalist Afro-jazz potential of ...