Information AboutRy Cooder |
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947 , in Los Angeles , California ) is an American Guitarist , Singer and Composer , known for his Slide Guitar work, his interest in the American Roots Music and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries. Cooder was ranked number 8 on '' Rolling Stone '' CAREER Cooder first attracted attention in the 1960s , playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal in The Rising Sons . He was a guest Rolling Stones Compilation Album '' Metamorphosis '' features an uncredited Cooder on Bill Wyman 's "Downtown Suzie", which is also the first Rolling Stones song played and recorded in the Open G Tuning . Ry Cooder is credited on Van Morrison 's critically acclaimed 1979 album, Into The Music for slide guitar on the song, "Full Force Gale". Throughout the 1970s , Cooder released a series of Warner Bros. Records albums that showcased his guitar work, to some degree. Cooder has been compared to a Musicologist , exploring bygone musical Genres with personalized and sensitive, updated reworkings of revered originals. Cooder's '70s albums (with the exception of ''Jazz'') do not fall under a single Genre description, but — to generalize broadly — it might be fair to call Cooder's self titled first album Blues ; '' Into The Purple Valley '', '' Boomer's Story '', and '' Paradise And Lunch '', Folk + Blues ; ''Chicken Skin Music'' and '' Showtime '', a unique melange of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian ; ''Jazz'', 1920s Jazz ; ''Bop Till You Drop'' '50's R&B ; and '' Borderline '' and '' Get Rhythm '', eclectic Rock based excursions. Cooder's 1979 album ''Bop Till You Drop'' was the first Popular Music album to be Recorded Digitally . It yielded his biggest Hit , an R&B Cover Version of Elvis Presley 's 1960s recording "Little Sister" . Cooder has worked as a 's '' The Long Riders '' (1980), '' Southern Comfort '' (1981), '' Brewster's Millions '' (1985), '' Last Man Standing '' (1996), and Mike Nichols ' '' Primary Colors '' (1998). Cooder also dubbed all guitar parts of Ralph Macchio in the 1986 film Crossroads except for the final composition with which Macchio wins the guitar duel. In recent years, Cooder has played a role in the increased appreciation of traditional film '' Crossroads '', a take on the infamous tale of the blues legend, Robert Johnson . Cooder's solo work has been an eclectic mix, taking in Dust Bowl Folk , Blues , Tex-Mex , Soul , Gospel , Rock , and almost everything else. He has collaborated with many important musicians, including The Rolling Stones , Little Feat , Trevor Whittaker , Captain Beefheart , The Chieftains , John Lee Hooker , Pops and Mavis Staples , Gabby Pahinui , Flaco Jimenez and Ali Farka Toure . He formed the Little Village Supergroup with Nick Lowe , John Hiatt , and Jim Keltner . In 1995 he performed in '''' a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund . The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996. His 2005 album '' Chávez Ravine '' was touted by his Record Label as being "a post-World War II-era American narrative of “cool cats,” radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball" — the record is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Chávez Ravine . Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside Chicano community, which was bulldozed by developers in the 1950s in the interest of “progress;” Dodger Stadium ultimately was built on the site. Cooder says, “Here is some music for a place you don’t know, up a road you don’t go. Chávez Ravine, where the sidewalk ends.” Drawing from the various musical strains of Los Angeles, including conjunto, corrido, R&B, Latin pop, and jazz, Cooder and friends conjure the ghosts of Chávez Ravine and Los Angeles at mid-century. On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by East L.A. legends like Chicano music patriarch Lalo Guerrero , Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti , Three Midniters front man Little Willie G, and Ersi Arvizu, of The Sisters and El Chicano. His next record was released in 2007. Entitled ''My Name Is Buddy'', it tells the story of a cat who travels and sees the world. ''My Name Is Buddy'' was accompanied by a booklet featuring a story and illustration (by Vincent Valdez) for each track, providing additional context to Buddy's adventures. TRIVIA
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