RY COODER'S PULL UP SOME DUST AND SIT DOWN; SIMPLE TOOLS FOR CITIZENS UNDER SIEGE! Ry Cooder will release his new album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down on August 30 on Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records.

The new LP, which is set for release on April 22, is the duo’s first collaboration in more than a half-century. To celebrate the announcement, the two musicians have released a new live video for the ...

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 ...

Nostalgic collections of roots-music songs have burgeoned through the holed-up pandemic years. Three new albums find history-aware performers looking back, in unpredictable ways: Taj Mahal and Ry ...

In the May 1, 2005 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Lynell George's piece "Soundtrack for a Lost L.A." chronicles the evolution of Ry Cooder's latest album, "Chavez Ravine," and unearths a tangled ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing "Hey Porter." A ...

Steve Vai has called starring in Crossraoads’ iconic guitar duel scene a pivotal moment in his career. Speaking in the latest issue of Guitar World, which uncovers the stories behind 1984’s most ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Guitarist Ry Cooder will follow his 2005 album "Chavez Ravine" with "My Name Is Buddy," due March 6 via Nonesuch, sources told Billboard.com. On it, Cooder narrates from the ...

The time has finally come: Bill Callahan is releasing his new album, Gold Record, next week via Drag City. For the last two and half months Callahan has released a new track every. Single. Monday.

Next week, the much-loved indie lifer Bill Callahan will release his new album Gold Record. In the lead-up to the album’s release, Callahan has been doing something interesting. He’s released one song ...

There is an African proverb that says "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The intimacy and the dynamics of the duet setting have long appealed to virtuoso guitarist ...