Artist: Ry Cooder
Genre(s):
Blues
Rock
New Age
Soundtrack
Pop
Jazz
Discography:
My Name Is Buddy
Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
Chavez Ravine
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
River Rescue: The Very Best of Ry Cooder
Year: 1999
Tracks: 19
Get Rhythm
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
Crossroads
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Borderline
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
The Long Riders
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
The End of Violence (Ry Cooder Score)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 18
Last Man Standing
Year: 1996
Tracks: 26
Blue City
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Ry Cooder
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Talking Timbuktu
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Show Time
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Geronimo: An American Legend
Year: 1993
Tracks: 17
Paris, Texas
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Paradise and Lunch
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Into the Purple Valley
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Chicken Skin Music
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Boomer's Story
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
The Slide Area
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
Why Don't You Try Me Tonight
Year: 1986
Tracks: 13
Bop Till You Drop
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Jammin With Edward!
Year: 1972
Tracks: 6
Whether service as a session player, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder's chameleon-like latticed instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and choices of material embrace an incredibly eclecticist cooking stove of North American melodious styles, including john Rock & roll, blue devils, reggae, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Dixieland jazz, land, common people, R&B, gospel, and music hall. The 16-year-old Cooder began his career in 1963 in a blues band with Jackie DeShannon and then formed the fugacious Rising Sons in 1965 with Taj Mahal and Spirit drummer Ed Cassidy. Cooder met producer Terry Melcher through the Rising Sons and was invited to do at various roger Huntington Sessions with Paul Revere & the Raiders. During his subsequent vocation as a session musician, Cooder's trademark slide guitar work graced the recordings of such artists as Captain Beefheart (Safe as Milk), Randy Newman, Little Feat, Van Dyke Parks, the Rolling Stones (Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers), Taj Mahal, and Gordon Lightfoot. He besides appeared on the soundtracks of Confect and Performance.
Cooder made his debut as a solo creative person in 1970 with a self-titled album featuring songs by Leadbelly, Blind Willie Johnson, Sleepy John Estes, and Woody Guthrie. The follow-up, Into the Purple Valley, introduced longtime cohorts Jim Keltner on drums and Jim Dickinson on bass, and it and Boomer's Story largely repeated and tasteful the syncopated expressive style and mode of the first-class honours degree. In 1974, Cooder produced what is generally regarded as his topper record album, Paradise and Lunch, and its follow-up, Volaille Skin Music, showcased a potent portmanteau of Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, gospel, and soul medicine, and featured contributions from Flaco Jimenez and Gabby Pahinui. In 1979, Bop Till You Drop was the first major-label record album to be recorded digitally. In the early '80s, Cooder began to augment his solo turnout with soundtrack mould on such films as Blueish Collar, The Long Riders, and The Border; he has gone on to compose medicine for Southerly Comfort, Goin' South, Paris, Texas, Streets of Fire, Alamo Bay, Gloomy City, Juncture, Cocktail, Rebel Handsome, Brand Magnolias, and Geronimo. Euphony by Ry Cooder (1995) compiled deuce discs' worth of highlights from Cooder's film work.
In 1992, Cooder coupled Keltner, John Hiatt, and far-famed British tunesmith Nick Lowe, all of whom had played on Hiatt's Impart the Family, to form Little Village, which toured and recorded one album. Cooder next turned his attention to world music, recording the album A Meeting by the River with Indian instrumentalist V.M. Bhatt. Cooder's next project, a duet album with noted African guitar player Ali Farka Touré highborn Talk Timbuktu, won the 1994 Grammy for Best World Music Recording.
His next world crosswalk would turn unrivaled of the almost popular musical rediscoveries of the 20th one C. In 1997 Cooder traveled to Cuba to produce and play with a mathematical group of word musicians world Health Organization had little exposure outside of their homeland. The resulting record album, Buena Vista Social Club, was a platinum-selling international success that made stars of Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, and Rubén González and earned Cooder some other Grammy. He continued to work on projects with his Buena Vista bandmates, including a coaction with Manuel Galbán in 2003 highborn Mambo Sinuendo. His former work in the 2000s included roger Sessions with James Taylor, Aaron Neville, Warren Zevon, and Spanish diva Luz Casal. In 2005 Cooder released Carlos Chavez Ravine, his offset solo album since 1987's Get Rhythm. The intriguing My Name Is Buddy followed in 2007.
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