10 Minutes With Ry Cooder

Journeyman guitarist yes, ethnomusicologist maybe

"...Ry Cooder’s career has taken him from working with the..."

Sept. 17, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The End of Violence

"...John Diehl, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Rosalind Chao, Frederic Forrest, Henry Silva, Udo Kier and Samuel Fuller. Not reviewed at..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2017 ACL Hall of Fame Induction

"...Orbison, Rosanne Cash, the Neville Brothers, and the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Public Broadcasting Act...."

Oct. 26, 2017 Photo Gallery

Ry Cooder

"...Ry CooderThe Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed (Warner..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Buena Vista Social Club

Intended less as a concert film than as a set of cinematic liner notes, BVSC is about the vanishing musical culture of Cuban stars who became famous in the Forties and Fifties while playing in the legendary Havana night club of the title.

"...Directed by: Wim Wenders. Starring: Omara Portuondo, Rubén González, Ry Cooder, Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer. The term “one-off..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Newton Boys

"...years ago, Warner Bros. released a 2-CD collection of Ry Cooder's work. Only instead of it being comprised of..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Bill Callahan Finds an Elder Perspective on New Album

Paternal dynamics paint the Austin virtuoso's new Gold Record

"...virtuoso embodies a cast of wizened individualists – an angry late-night TV viewer, a Ry Cooder fanatic, and an..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Buena Vista Social Club Survivors Come to Austin

Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa lead the new Cuban-American frontier

"...In 1996, when journeyman guitarist/producer Ry Cooder traveled to Havana and recruited a group of..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Music Feature by María Núñez

Another Epic Austin City Limits HOF

Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash, Neville Brothers, and LBJ honored

"...After more than three hours and enough opera, country, and fonk to fill three separate Austin City Limits..."

Oct. 26, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...1 -- The Phantom Menace. It is assumed that every man, woman, and child in the galaxy will see..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...2014, but after Belize felt a bit primitive in January 2016, the moved stalled. That bought me added bylines,..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Grupo Fantasma’s Quinceañera

And you thought you had Problemas

"...Beto Martinez [guitarist]: We actually finished this record in January 2013. It was supposed to come out that year,..."

Oct. 29, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell

String sorcerer went to my college?

"...been Labor Day – and had we not been trying to hook up by phone for days already –..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Best of 2012, Vol. 2

This year wasn’t such a wash after all

"...something new to check out and a diverse audience hungry for and ready to support what’s next. I only..."

Jan. 2, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Calle 54

Superstars of Latin jazz are captured as they perform in the studio.

"...O'Farrill waxing contemplative on a cab ride to the legendary Birdland club, and tenor saxophonist Barbieri chatting up a..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...legacies from the Nineties, BVSC is an endearing Cinderella story in which journeyman guitarist Ry Cooder and producer Nick..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Aces High

The Return of the Texas Tornados

"..."Augie" Meyers. "We're the Old Farts in the Neighborhood!" Everyone's reuniting this year: KISS, the Sex Pistols, the Misfits,..."

July 5, 1996 Music Feature

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."Austin Pickers," Gary P. Nunn..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

On the Couch

Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt talk shop

"...questions. Some were about an appearance Hiatt made with Ry Cooder at the Paramount in the early 1980s, which..."

June 30, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

An Angel-Free Angeles

Detective novelist Michael Connelly trolls L.A.'s seedy underbelly again in The Brass Verdict

"...began writing his series of crime novels, set in contemporary L.A. and starring a LAPD homicide detective named Harry..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Rubén González Chanchullo (Nonesuch)

"...the Forties that featured complex counter-rhythms, both parallel and contrary motion, flashy runs, and splashy chords. González was a..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Ki ho`alu

Dancing Cat's Slack Key Guitar Series

"...Almost everything we consider "Hawaiian music," then, is a recent invention,..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Hovvdy, Cherubs, Hoody Rap, a Tribute to Walter Hyatt, and more recommended sounds

"..."I love my nephew Rex/ My mama called me crying/ Her son is a father." Soon after, another revelation:..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Bill Callahan Album Review

Gold Record (Drag City)

"...It's gold-standard lyricism from the prolific Austinite, replete with out-of-the-ordinary details and smirking wordsmithery. At the song's end, he..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...cars, super-stylized gang warfare, and a score that mixed Ry Cooder, megastar producers Jim Steinman and Jimmy Iovine, Stevie..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thursday SXSW Sleepers

"...Toothgrinder 8pm, ElysiumWelcome to Asbury Park, hope you survive. The Garden State's newest massacre..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

WobeonFest Slinger: Vieux Farka Toure

Malian guitarist: “We are young, so [we] have to create new styles”

"...blues from Mali entered Stateside consciousness in 1994 when Ry Cooder and the region’s Ali Farka Toure staged a..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones' sacrificial lamb receives an overdue close-up

"...Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stonesby Paul Trynka Viking, 384 pp., $28.95..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Wayfaring Strangers

Old Settler's Music Festival assimilates

"...marquee act Hot Rize cites in Los Lobos and Ry Cooder. "[They] synthesize [roots music] into something new. That's..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...really healthy that, within the world of acoustic music, everything has opened up so much. I don't want to..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

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