Ry Cooder

Ry Cooder live at McGlohon Theatre, Charlotte NC, Aud 2025

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Ry Cooder

July 2, 2025 Martin Johnson 8

Back in the seventies, Ry Cooder and J J Cale started me on my journey to explore American roots music. At the time, I thought Cooder was recreating the sounds of bygone times with his uncovering […]

Interview: Joachim Cooder on “Dreamer’s Motel”

October 29, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

How climbing into Jim Keltner’s drum kit as a child set him on a career as a drummer and percussionist. Joachim Cooder may have had a privileged view of the music industry as a child, but […]

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For the Sake of the Song: John Hiatt “Have a Little Faith in Me”

August 5, 2024 Andy Short 2

For years, John Hiatt was in a category of his own. His own record company didn’t know where to place him. He is undoubtedly under Americana’s broad banner, but would you say he was country, blues […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Ry Cooder Albums

May 10, 2024 David Jarman 4

Ry Cooder occupies a very special place in the canon of Americana, as an instrumentalist, songwriter, collaborator across many genres and interpreter of American traditional music. A highly rated guitarist, especially on slide where he is […]

Interview: Gaby Moreno on “Dusk” and Van Dyke Parks

March 5, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

It is time for americana to welcome more latin influence. Guatemalan artist and Los Angeles resident Gaby Moreno is on a mission to bring more of a latin influence to americana, building on the pioneering work […]