1. Ryland Peter Cooder was born on March 15,1947 and is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer.
38 Facts About Ry Cooder
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Ry Cooder is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
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Ry Cooder has played with John Lee Hooker, Captain Beefheart, Taj Mahal, Gordon Lightfoot, Ali Farka Toure, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Randy Newman, Linda Ronstadt, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, David Lindley, the Chieftains, Warren Zevon, Manuel Galban, the Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, and Carla Olson and the Textones.
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Ry Cooder formed the band Little Village, and produced the album Buena Vista Social Club, which became a worldwide hit; Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.
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Ry Cooder was ranked at No 8 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", while a 2010 list by Gibson Guitar Corporation placed him at No 32.
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Ryland Peter Ry Cooder was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 15,1947, the son of Emma Casaroli and Bill Ry Cooder.
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Ry Cooder was raised in Santa Monica, California, and graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1964.
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Ry Cooder began playing the guitar when he was three years old.
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Ry Cooder performed as part of a pickup trio with Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, in which he played banjo.
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The trio was not successful, but reflecting his early exposure to the instrument, Ry Cooder subsequently applied banjo tunings and the three finger roll to guitar.
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Ry Cooder first attracted attention playing with Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, notably on the 1967 album Safe as Milk, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal and Ed Cassidy in the Rising Sons.
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Ry Cooder later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.
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Ry Cooder was a session musician on various recording sessions with the Rolling Stones in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the albums Let It Bleed, and Sticky Fingers, on which he contributed the slide guitar on "Sister Morphine".
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Ry Cooder played slide guitar for the 1970 film soundtrack Performance, which contained Jagger's first solo single, "Memo from Turner".
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Ry Cooder collaborated with Lowell George of Little Feat, playing bottleneck guitar on the original version of "Willin'".
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Ry Cooder played bottleneck guitar and mandolin on two tracks on the Gordon Lightfoot album Sit Down Young Stranger, recorded in late 1969 and released in early 1970.
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Ry Cooder explored bygone musical genres and found old-time recordings which he then personalized and updated.
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Ry Cooder is credited on Van Morrison's 1979 album Into the Music, for slide guitar on the song "Full Force Gale".
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Ry Cooder played guitar on Judy Collins' 1970 concert tour, and is featured on Living, the 1971 live album recorded during that tour.
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Ry Cooder learned from and performed with Gabby Pahinui and "Atta" Isaacs in Hawaii during the Hawaiian Renaissance of the early 1970s.
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Ry Cooder is credited as a mandolin player on Gordon Lightfoot's Don Quixote album in 1972.
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Ry Cooder has worked as a studio musician and has scored many film soundtracks including the Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas.
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In 1988, Ry Cooder produced the album by his longtime backing vocalists Bobby King and Terry Evans on Rounder Records titled Live and Let Live.
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Ry Cooder contributed his slide guitar work to every track.
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Ry Cooder's music appeared on two episodes of the television program Tales From the Crypt: "The Man Who Was Death" and "The Thing From the Grave".
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In 1985, Ry Cooder was a guest artist on the song "Rough Edges" from Kim Carnes' album Barking at Airplanes.
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Ry Cooder worked with Tuvan throat singers for the score to the 1993 film Geronimo: An American Legend.
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Ry Cooder produced and performed on an album for Mavis Staples entitled We'll Never Turn Back, which was released on April 24,2007.
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In late 2009, Ry Cooder toured Japan, New Zealand, and Australia with Nick Lowe, performing some of Lowe's songs and a selection of Ry Cooder's own material, mainly from the 1970s.
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Joaquim Ry Cooder provided percussion, and Juliette Commagere and Alex Lilly contributed backing vocals.
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The song "Diaraby", which Ry Cooder recorded with Ali Farka Toure, is used as the theme to The World's Geo Quiz.
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In 2009, Ry Cooder performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
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Ry Cooder performed with Bob Dylan and Van Dyke Parks on the documentary broadcast on December 13,2009, on the History Channel.
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Ry Cooder traveled with the band Los Tigres del Norte and recorded the 2010 album San Patricio with the Chieftains, Lila Downs, Liam Neeson, Linda Ronstadt, Van Dyke Parks, Los Cenzontles, and Los Tigres.
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Ry Cooder's critically acclaimed new album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, released on August 30,2011, contains politically charged songs such as "No Banker Left Behind" which was inspired by a Robert Scheer column.
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On September 10,2013, Ry Cooder released Live in San Francisco, featuring the Corridos Famosos band, including Joachim Ry Cooder on drums; Robert Francis on bass; vocalists Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, and Juliette Commagere; Flaco Jimenez on accordion; and the Mexican brass band La Banda Juvenil.
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In 2015, Ry Cooder toured with Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White and other members of the Whites with their "Music for The Good People" show.
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On May 11,2018, Ry Cooder released his first solo album in six years entitled The Prodigal Son.