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Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, November 1976
I'VE BEEN LOOKING forward to this one for ages, same as I do every Ry Cooder album. Apart from the obvious quality of his music, ...
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AUDIO: The Ry Cooder Interview, parts 1-3 (2005)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2005
From his youth in Santa Monica via the Ash Grove scene through to movie soundtracks and his explorations of world musics: Ry on the music business, his fellow musicians and his politically progressive background and instincts.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 76.2meg, total interview length: 83' 11" sound quality: ***
Interview by Joel Selvin, Selvin On The City, KSAN 107.7, November 2008
The meastro of roots and Americana talks about his recent work - I, Flathead, Chávez Ravine - and looks back to the making of his first album and subsequent career.
File format: mp3 File size: 32.4mb Interview length: 35' 27"; Sound quality: *****
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Ry Cooder: The Name To Watch In 71...
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, December 1970
Jacoba Atlas talks to the States' hottest new guitarist ...
Ry Cooder: Into The Purple Valley (Reprise)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, February 1972
THE COVER of Ry Cooder's second album features the guitarist and his lady posed in and out of a mid-Forties model Dodge convertible. It's straight ...
Ry Cooder: Paradise & Lunch (Reprise); Rita Coolidge: Fall Into Spring (A&M)
Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, June 1974
Setting a Scene for Rock ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, July 1974
RY COODER has a corner of the rock & roll world all to himself. Like the folk traditionalists, he draws on dead or dying idioms ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 1976
Ry Cooder, cult figure and esoteric guitarist, tells CHRIS CHARLESWORTH in New York why he's now into Tex-Mex music ...
Review by John Morthland, Creem, November 1976
BY NOW, Ry Cooder has established his niche so conclusively that you already know whether you like him or not. His curiously pinched vocals. His ...
Ry Cooder Part 1: Into The Purple Valley Of Romance And Adventure
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, February 1977
"Everything I know, I know from records. I don't live in a place where the neighbours are playing fiddles, I live in the city."When Ry ...
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, February 1977
IT WAS like seeing three movies on one screen. On your right, you have this three-man gospel-style streetcorner vocal section – Bobby and Eldridge King, ...
Ry Cooder Part 2: The Prospect Before Us
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, March 1977
Since the first half of this interview was written, there's been an opportunity to see Ry and the Chicken Skin Band in action, which was ...
Ry Cooder & The Chicken Skin Revue: Show Time (Warner Bros.)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, August 1977
Cooder tat no Coup d'etat (geddit?) ...
Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop (Warner Bros.)*****
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, July 1979
THERE'S PROBABLY a whole bunch of enormous ironies knocking around this world but right now I can't think of a bigger or more slap-happy one ...
Ry Cooder: Bop Till You Drop (Warners Import)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1979
RYLAND P. Cooder is a most reliable fellow. Ever since the days when he was laying down that stinging bottleneck guitar behind the likes of ...
Ry Cooder: Ry And Related Stuff
Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, August 1979
"Me and my wife, Went all over town, And everywhere we went, The people turned us down, Lord, in a bourgeois town, In a bourgeois ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Sunday Times Magazine, November 1980
RY COODER was once described as a "curator of American music". A fair assessment, but it hardly captures the joy and affection of his modern ...
Ry Cooder's Search For The Lost Chord
Interview by Noe Gold, Guitar Works, March 1981
Cooder gesticulates in much the same way as he articulates musically – with an emphasis that lets you know he's earned the insight. ...
Ry Cooder: The Slide Area (Warner Bros.)/The Border – Original Soundtrack (MCA)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1982
THE MORE things remain the same, the more they change: after more than a decade of recording as a featured artist, Ry Cooder has finally ...
All-American Music Man: Ry Cooder
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Sunday Times, May 1982
IT WAS THE MEXICANS that did it. The violent hue of his shirt notwithstanding, the tall, taciturn figure in the centre of the stage looked ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, In Dublin, June 1982
WITHIN HOURS of arriving from Glasgow, Ry Cooder walked into a room in Jury's Hotel wearing a black track suit, with a towel bundled under ...
Ry Cooder: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, NME, June 1982
RY COODER spent the '70s with his shoulder to the grindstone and his heart in the right place delivering a series of albums which spanned ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, Face, The, July 1982
Ry Cooder is tall, like a Texan, and dry, very dry, like a Margarita; tall in both physical height and musical standing, dry in both ...
Interview by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Guitar Greats', BBC Books, 1983
IT MAY BE that American readers of this book may wonder ‘Why?’ And even perhaps, ‘Who?’ It is an unfortunate fact that Ry Cooder, a ...
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, December 1984
"PARIS, TEXAS IS like a perfect career job," reflects Ry Cooder, the composer of the film's haunting score. "It's the kind of film that if ...
Interview by Don Snowden, Musician, February 1985
"A MOVIE SCORE is probably the last refuge of abstract music," remarks Ry Cooder in the spartan foyer of a Hollywood sound studio. "You can't ...
Ry Cooder's Mood Indigo Meditations: Paris, Texas
Review by Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, April 1985
SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS – the genuine article, not song collections assembled in executive suites with an eye for tapping the teen demographic – are inherently strange ...
Review by Andy Gill, NME, September 1986
DURING THE early/mid-'70s, Warner Brothers were the envy of their major corporate rivals for their unparalleled hip-act market-share. Partly, one suspects, for the way their ...
Ry Cooder: Fascinatin' Rhythms
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, February 1988
FIVE YEARS may have passed since Ry Cooder last put together an album of non-movie music, but it's not as if the guy has been ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, March 1988
FIVE YEARS AGO Ry Cooder packed out the Hammersmith Odeon for eight consecutive nights, the culmination of a triumphant European tour. ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Guardian, The, May 1988
Ry Cooder is on the road again. He talks to Mark Cooper ...
Ry Cooder & David Lindley: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, July 1990
A backroom Stone slides into town ...
Ry Cooder: At Home In The Village
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, February 1992
Robert Sandall talks to Ry Cooder about the band that has given his guitar-playing a new sense of pleasure and purpose ...
Guide by 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 ...
Ry Cooder and Manuel Galbán: Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
Review by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, February 2003
THE WHOLE BUENA Vista Social Club never really pushed my buttons – I liked the film well enough but always drifted off when listening to ...
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, August 2003
TO MOST VISITORS and residents, Santa Monica is Los Angeles-on-sea, a breezy, oceanside reprieve from the bad air, nose-to-tail buildings and car-choked "boulevards" that sprawl ...
The Backpages Interview: Ry Cooder
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2005
RBP: Do you remember the folk scene of the early '60s as being polarized on more or less political/commercial grounds? How do you recall the ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2005
RYLAND PETER COODER is a man out of time – at the very least a fish out of water. In London to promote his superb ...
Ry Cooder: Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2005
AFTER A DECADE of travels that's taken him from Timbuktu to Cuba, Ry Cooder has come home to shine a light on a shameful episode ...
Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Harp, March 2007
WHEN RY Cooder received a doctored photo in the mail, of a red cat in the guise of Leadbelly, he knew he had found a ...
His Name is Flathead: An Interview with Ry Cooder
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2008
With his new album, Ry Cooder completes the trilogy of records about 1940s/50s California that began with Chavez Ravine and continued with My Name Is ...
Ry Cooder: I, Flathead (Nonesuch)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2008
Final instalment of Cooder's "trilogy" time-traveling back to '40's/'50s California, here exploring a lost world of steel guitarists and salt-flat drag racers. Comes complete with ...
Ry Cooder: Bop Until You Drop Vinyl Icon
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, September 2010
GUITAR GURU Ry Cooder's eighth album, Bop Till You Drop, released at the very end of July 1979, gave him his first British chart entry, ...
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