Ry Cooder

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Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer and record producer.

He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries. Cooder's solo work draws upon many genres.

He has played with John Lee Hooker, Captain Beefheart, Gordon Lightfoot, Ali Farka Touré, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Randy Newman, David Lindley, The Chieftains, The Doobie Brothers, and Carla Olson & the Textones (on record and film).

He formed the band Little Village.

He also produced the Buena Vista Social Club album (1997), which became a worldwide hit.

Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. Cooder was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (David Fricke's Picks).

A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.

Early life

Ryland Peter Cooder was born in Los Angeles on March 15, 1947, the son of Emma Casaroli and Bill Cooder. His mother was of Italian descent. He grew up in Santa Monica, California, and graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1964. During the 1960s, he briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He began playing the guitar when he was three years old. At the age of four, he accidentally stuck a knife in his left eye and has sported a glass eye ever since.

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Career

In which he played banjo, Cooder appeared as part of a pickup trio with Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. Cooder's early exposure to the instrument, Cooder has used banjo tuning and the three-finger roll to guitar, proving that the trio was not a success.

After having worked with Taj Mahal and Ed Cassidy in the Rising Sons, Cooder first attracted notice when playing with Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, particularly on the 1967 album Safe as Milk. The Mt. was a vital "warm-up" show at the beginning. The Tamalpais Festival (1967-06-10/11) took place shortly before the band's performance on "Electricity" and Don Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, and then walked away from the 10 ft (3.0 m) stage and landed on boss Bob Krasnow. He later claimed to have turned a woman in the audience into a fish, with bubbles escaping from her mouth. Any chance of miracle success at Monterey was shattered as Cooder announced that he would no longer work with Van Vliet right away, effectively ending the event and the band on the spot. During the 1960s, Cooder performed with Randy Newman, including on 12 Songs. According to Parks' 1984 interview with Bob Claster, Cooder's "One Meatball" was arranged by Parks.

Cooder appeared on "Love in Vain"), and Sticky Fingers, where he appeared on various recording sessions with The Rolling Stones in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the albums Let It Bleed (Yank Rachell-style mandolin on "Love in Vain") and "Sister Morphine." Cooder, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Bill Wyman, and longtime Rolling Stones sideman Nicky Hopkins were all in Jamming with Edward during this time. "Memo from Turner" was also played slide guitar in Cooder's 1970 film soundtrack performance, which included Jagger's first solo album. On Bill Wyman's "Downtown Suzie," the 1975 compilation album Metamorphosis features an uncredited Cooder contribution.

On the original version of "Willin," Cooder also worked with Lowell George of Little Feat, playing bottleneck guitar on the original version of "Willin." On two tracks on Gordon Lightfoot's Sit Down Young Stranger (later re-titled If You Could Read My Mind), he appeared on late 1969 and 1970.

Throughout the 1970s, Cooder released a collection of Warner Bros. Records albums that showcased his guitar work, first on the Reprise Records label, before being reassigned to the main Warner Bros. label alongside several of Reprise's artists when the imprint was discontinued. Cooder investigated bygone musical styles and discovered old-time recordings that he later customized and updated. He also selected unusual instrumentation and arrangements of blues, gospel, calypso, and country songs on his debut album, "Billy the Kid." Agnes "Sis" Cunningham's album "How Can You Keep Moving (If You Migrate Too Much) launched the album. The Okies were not welcomed when they migrated west to escape the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, to which Cooder gave a rousing-yet march accompaniment. In 1970, he collaborated with Ron Nagle and appeared on his Bad Rice album, which was released on Warner Brothers. His late 1970s albums (with the exception of Jazz, which delves into ragtime/vaudeville) do not fall into a single genre; his self-titled first album, Into the Purple Valley, Boomer's Tale, and Paradise and Lunch as folk and blues; and Chicken Skin Music and Showtime as a blend of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian; and Borderline and Get Rhythm as rock-based; Bop Till You Drop, Michael Jackson's 1979 album, was the first popular music album to be released digitally, using the early 3M digital mastering recorder. Elvis Presley's 1960s hit "Little Sister" on R&B.

On the album "Full Force Gale," Cooder is credited on Van Morrison's 1979 album Into the Music for slide guitar. He appeared on Judy Collins' 1970 concert tour and was also on Living, the 1971 live album released during that tour. During the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s, he learned from and performed with Gabby Pahinui and "Atta" Isaacs in Hawaii. He has been credited for guitars on several 1971 recordings by Nancy Sinatra, including "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone," "Hook & Ladder," and "Glory Road." On Gordon Lightfoot's Don Quixote album in 1972, Cooder is credited as a mandolin player.

Cooder has performed as a studio musician and has appeared on several film soundtracks, including the Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas (1984). Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)," Cooder based this soundtrack and title song "Paris, Texas"), which he described as "the most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music." Dave Grohl has named Cooder's score for Paris, Texas, as one of his favorite albums. “[Wenders] did a good job at capturing the atmosphere out there in the desert, not just allowing the microphones and the nagra machine to roll and get tones and sound from the desert itself, which, I learned was E. That's the wind, you know. So we tuned it all in to E" before.

Also the basis for Cooder's song "Powis Square" for the film "Dark Was the Night" was based on "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground). Walter Hill's Other Films (1980) includes Walter Hill's Long Riders (1980), Streets of Fire (1981), and The Long Riders (1985), Last Man Standing (1986), and Mike Nichols' Primary Colors (1998). In the 1986 film Crossroads, a tribute to blues legend Robert Johnson, Cooder and Arlen Roth dubbed all slide and regular blues guitar parts. On Rounder Records' Live and Let Live, Cooder produced the album by his longtime backing vocalists Bobby King and Terry Evans in 1988. He performed his slide guitar on every track. He also appears on their 1990 self-produced Rounder publication, Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves. "The Man Who Was Death" and "The Thing From the Grave" were also on two episodes of Tales From the Crypt; "The Man Who Was Dead" and "The Thing From the Grave."

Cooder appeared on two songs on Carla Olson's debut album "Carla's Number One is to Survive" and the previously unreleased Bob Dylan song "Clean Cut Kid"; a 1984 documentary by Robert Cooder. He was writing and recording the songs for the film Blue City and asked the band to appear in the film. (He brought them in to the studio and wrote "You Can Run," a song he also performed on.

Cooder appeared on Kim Carnes' album Barking at Airplanes in 1985. Kim named her son Ry as a tribute to Ry Cooder. On the 1988 hit "Kokomo," he played electric slide guitar.

Cooder produced and appeared in the Les Blank-directed concert documentary film Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Aces (Singularity) in 1988, where he appears in collaboration with a group of musicians well-known in their respective musical fields. In the episode "Music Is More Than Technique," Jim Henson's book The Ghost of Faffner Hall, he appeared as a janitor in the Jim Henson series "Music Is More Than Technique."

Cooder's first two world music "crossover" albums, which combined Cooder's classical American musical styles with India and Africa's modern improvised music. He joined Hindustani classical musician V.M. for a Meeting by the River (1993), which also featured his son Joachim Cooder on percussion. Bhatt, a virtuoso of the Mohan Veena (a modified 20-string archtop guitar of Bhatt's own invention), and Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari, also known as Pinky Tabla Player, are among Bhatt's most popular performers.

He collaborated with Malaysian multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Toure to record the album Talking Timbuktu, which he also produced in 1993. Jim Keltner, a long-serving blues guitarist, clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, jazz bassist John Patitucci, and African percussionists and performers such as Hamma Sankare and Oumar Toure were among the album's highlights on this tour, which was released in 1994. Both albums received the Grammy Award for 'Best World Music Album' in 1994 and 1995, respectively. For the score to the 1993 film Geronimo: An American Legend, Cooder also worked with Tuvan throat singers.

In 1995, he appeared in The Wizard of Oz, a musical interpretation of the famous tale at the Lincoln Center in New York in order to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The show appeared on both TBS and TNT at the time. In 1996, it was released on CD and DVD.

Cooder's involvement in traditional Cuban music in the 1990s boosted appreciation of traditional Cuban music, as a producer and revived some of the best living exponents of twentieth century Cuban music. Wim Wenders, who had previously produced a documentary film of the musicians involved, Buena Vista Social Club (1999), which had been nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. For breaching the United States embargo against Cuba, the company was fined $25,000.

Chávez Ravine, Cooder's 2005 album, was described as "a post-World War II-American narrative of 'cool cats, radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball." The record is a salute to Chávez Ravine, a long-serving Los Angeles Latino enclave. Cooder and his colleagues created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but thriving hillside Chicano community, which no longer exists. "Here is some music for a place you don't know," Cooder says, up a road you don't know. "Chávez Ravine, where the sidewalk ends." Cooder and Cooder recall Chávez Ravine and Los Angeles at mid-century, drawing on the various musical styles of Los Angeles, including conjunto, R&B, Latin pop, and jazz. Cooder's album, which is available in both Spanish and English, is joined by East Los Angeles stal Don Tosti, Lalo Guerrero, Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti, Thee Midniters front man, and Ersi Arvizu of The Sisters and El Chicano.

In 2007, Cooder's next record was unveiled. Buddy is a kid who travels and sees the world in the company of his like-minded friends, Lefty Mouse and Rev. It's titled My Name Is Buddy. Tom Toad. The entire album is a parable of working class liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century, and it even has a song dedicated to executed unionist Joe Hill. For each track, My Name Is Buddy was accompanied by a booklet containing a tale and illustration by Vincent Valdez, giving additional insight to Buddy's travels.

Cooder produced and appeared on an album for Mavis Staples entitled We'll Never Turn Back, which was released on April 24, 2007. The concept album concentrated on the civil rights movement's Gospel songs, as well as two new original songs by Cooder.

Flathead, Cooder's album, was released on June 24, 2008. It's the end of his California trilogy. The album is based on the drag racing heritage of the early 1960s in southern California, based on the desert salt flats. The collection was also available as a deluxe version with Cooder's stories to accompany the music.

Cooder and Nick Lowe, along with Nick Lowe, toured Japan, New Zealand, and Australia in late 2009, performing some of Lowe's songs and a sample of Cooder's own material, mainly from the 1970s. Joaquim Cooder (Ry's son) provided percussion, while Juliette Commage and Alex Lilly performed backing vocals.

As the theme to The World's Geo Quiz, Cooder's album "Diaraby," which Cooder produced with Ali Farka Touré, is used. The World is a radio show on Radio International.

In 2009, Cooder appeared in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that focuses on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. On the History Channel's documentary film "Cold Dylan and Van Dyke Parks" on December 13, 2009. According to reports, they performed "Do Re Mi" and a few other Guthrie songs that were not included in the final edit. He played with Los Tigres, Lila Downs, Liam Neeson, Linda Ronstadt, Van Dyke Parks, Los Tigres, and Los Tigres, as well as the Chieftains, Lila Downs, Liam Neeson, Linda Ronstadt, Los Cenzontles, and Los Tigres.

He released "Quicksand," a poem about Mexicans trying to migrate to Arizona across the desert in June 2010. "No Banker Left Behind" was inspired by a Robert Scheer column on Cooder's critically acclaimed new album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, which was released on August 30, 2011.

Los Angeles Stories, a collection of short stories about people living in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s, was released in 2011. The book's characters are mainly gifted or skilled, aspirational, or hardworking people living in humble circumstances. The collection's stories often have a Hispanic theme, with titles like "La vida es sue" and "Kill me, por favor," and "Understand Me" and "Kill me, por favor," and the book partially addresses Latinos in Los Angeles during this period.

Cooder's latest collection of solo albums has often taken on an allegorical, sociopolitical bent, according to an American Songwriter review in 2012. Evan Schlansky, a music journalist, said that "Cooder's new initiative, Election Special (which appeared on Nonesuch/Verde) doesn't mince words. It's designed to send a message to the 'deacons' in the High Church of the Next Dollar.' In the 2012 election, the album was released in favor of both the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama.

Cooder's Live in San Francisco on September 10, 2013, a tribute to Mexican brass band La Banda Juvenil, which features Joachim Cooder on drums; Robert Francis on bass; and Juliette Commage; and Joachim Cooder on accordion. During a two-night run at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, August 31-2011, the album was recorded. It's Cooder's first official live recording since Show Time in 1977 (which had also been broadcast at Great American Music Hall).

With their "Music for The Good People" exhibition, Cooder toured with Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White, and other members of The Whites in 2015. The tour stayed on through to 2016.

Cooder's first solo album in six years, The Protester Son, was released on May 11, 2018. Joachim's son, who also accompanied Cooder on drums, appeared at the start of the tour.

"Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee" was released on April 22, 2022 by Cooder and Taj Mahal.

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Awards

• 1988 Grammy Award (Best Recording for Children) – Pecos Bill, producer (Rabbit Ears Productions)
• 1993 Grammy Award (Best World Music Album) – A Meeting by the River (with Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
• 1994 Grammy Award (Best World Music Album) – Talking Timbuktu with Ali Farka Toure
• 1997 Grammy Award (Best Tropical Latin Performance) – Buena Vista Social Club
• 2003 Grammy Award (Best Pop Instrumental Album) – Mambo Sinuendo with Manuel Galbán
• 2003 Grammy Award (Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album) – Buenos Hermanos, producer (Ibrahim Ferrer, artist)
• 2000 – Honorary doctorate from Queen's University, Canada
• 2001 – Honorary doctorate from the California Institute of the Arts
• 2017 – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2018 – Montreal International Jazz Festival – Spirit Award