How to Buy Ry Cooder
Fred Dellar, MOJO, August 1998
BETTER KNOWN for bottleneck than even the M25, Ryland Cooder remains a cult figure despite appearing on records by the Rolling Stones, the Monkees, Johnny Cash, Randy Newman, Eric Clapton, the Everly Brothers, Neil Young, Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, Van Morrison and a zillion others with their own rock encyclopedia entries.
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