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Ry Cooder:
Arguably the finest blues guitarist of his generation, Ry Cooder attracts a following that cuts across most known boundaries. Earning his early blues dues with Taj Mahal and his rock credentials with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Cooder has, over the past couple of decades, made superlative rock, jazz and movie soundtrack albums, and crossed effortlessly into world music fusions with artists as diverse as Malian bluesman Ali Farka Toure, Okinawan group Nenes, and the Indian guitarist V. M. Bhatt. Indeed, it's in these ethnic fusions - and the soundtrack instrumentals - that Cooder seems most at ease, as a guitarist essentially. The songs and the vocals often seem a secondary concern.
Largely self-taught, Ryland Peter Cooder began playing guitar at the age of 3. Influenced by recordings of blues legend Josh White, he spent his teens at the centre of the Los Angeles blues scene, the Ash Grove, where he regularly took the stage from the age of 16. Encounters at the Grove led to musical experimentation. Conversations with the likes of Gary Davies and Jackie DeShannon made him take up both the banjo and the mandolin, and within a year he was playing both proficiently. Ittook him even less time to master the bottleneck blues guitar, the style which would later become his trademark.
In 1964 TAJMAHAL came to the Grove in search of new ideas and rehearsed extensively with Cooder, before the pair formed The Rising Sons, and began recording an album. With the record only half-finished, Taj Mahal disappeared, but short-lived though their professional relationship was, Mahal's influence upon Cooder is still apparent in his playing.
After years of live performances, Cooder finally entered the recording studio in 1968 to work on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's debut album. He was hired as a session musician, but his contribution to the project extended to his arranging a couple of tracks. On Beefheart's recommendation, Cooder went on to record successfully with Paul Revere And The Raiders, before travelling to England in 1969 for his first real brush with fame.
Once in England, Cooder set about writing the soundtrack for an upcoming motion picture, Candy. While working on this project, he was approached with an eye to recording with THE ROLLING STONES. By all accounts, Cooder thoroughly enjoyed the time he spent working on Let It Bleed, but his experiences recording the Candy soundtrack were to have the more profound effect on his career. Meantime, such was his reputation as a session player that he sealed a deal with Warner/Reprise, and released Ry Cooder (1970), a blues- and folk-inflected rock album, covering songs by the likes of Woody Guthrie.
Cooder's second album, Into The Purple Valley (1972), with the slide to the fore, was a big enough commercial success to allow him the luxury of experimentation. Later albums would see Ry try his hand at classical guitar on Boomer's Story (1973), gospel music on Paradise And Lunch (1974), and dixieland jazz on Jazz (1978), while a profound interest in Hawaiian guitar manifested itself on his fifth Warner release, ChickenSkin Music (1975).
These records just about covered their costs backin America but Cooder enjoyed more substantial success in Europe. A big hit in Germany and Holland, Ry also found an audience in Britain, where his 1979 album, Bop Till You Drop,made the Top 40 ...
Arguably the finest blues guitarist of his generation, Ry Cooder attracts a following that cuts across most known boundaries. Earning his early blues dues with Taj Mahal and his rock credentials with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Cooder has, over the past couple of decades, made superlative rock, jazz and movie soundtrack albums, and crossed effortlessly into world music fusions with artists as diverse as Malian bluesman Ali Farka Toure, Okinawan group Nenes, and the Indian guitarist V. M. Bhatt. Indeed, it's in these ethnic fusions - and the soundtrack instrumentals - that Cooder seems most at ease, as a guitarist essentially. The songs and the vocals often seem a secondary concern.
Largely self-taught, Ryland Peter Cooder began playing guitar at the age of 3. Influenced by recordings of blues legend Josh White, he spent his teens at the centre of the Los Angeles blues scene, the Ash Grove, where he regularly took the stage from the age of 16. Encounters at the Grove led to musical experimentation. Conversations with the likes of Gary Davies and Jackie DeShannon made him take up both the banjo and the mandolin, and within a year he was playing both proficiently. Ittook him even less time to master the bottleneck blues guitar, the style which would later become his trademark.
In 1964 TAJMAHAL came to the Grove in search of new ideas and rehearsed extensively with Cooder, before the pair formed The Rising Sons, and began recording an album. With the record only half-finished, Taj Mahal disappeared, but short-lived though their professional relationship was, Mahal's influence upon Cooder is still apparent in his playing.
After years of live performances, Cooder finally entered the recording studio in 1968 to work on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's debut album. He was hired as a session musician, but his contribution to the project extended to his arranging a couple of tracks. On Beefheart's recommendation, Cooder went on to record successfully with Paul Revere And The Raiders, before travelling to England in 1969 for his first real brush with fame.
Once in England, Cooder set about writing the soundtrack for an upcoming motion picture, Candy. While working on this project, he was approached with an eye to recording with THE ROLLING STONES. By all accounts, Cooder thoroughly enjoyed the time he spent working on Let It Bleed, but his experiences recording the Candy soundtrack were to have the more profound effect on his career. Meantime, such was his reputation as a session player that he sealed a deal with Warner/Reprise, and released Ry Cooder (1970), a blues- and folk-inflected rock album, covering songs by the likes of Woody Guthrie.
Cooder's second album, Into The Purple Valley (1972), with the slide to the fore, was a big enough commercial success to allow him the luxury of experimentation. Later albums would see Ry try his hand at classical guitar on Boomer's Story (1973), gospel music on Paradise And Lunch (1974), and dixieland jazz on Jazz (1978), while a profound interest in Hawaiian guitar manifested itself on his fifth Warner release, ChickenSkin Music (1975).
These records just about covered their costs backin America but Cooder enjoyed more substantial success in Europe. A big hit in Germany and Holland, Ry also found an audience in Britain, where his 1979 album, Bop Till You Drop,made the Top 40 ...
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