ry cooder

Ry Cooder has announced the release of his first solo album in six years. The Prodigal Son is set for release by Fantasy Records on May 11th, 2018. Listen to lead track Shrinking Man.

Singer-songwriter Ry Cooder will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards which take place on 5 April at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Lost and Found features previously unreleased tracks from the Buena Vista Social Club some of which were recorded at the time of the original sessions. Watch the album trailer.

A brief promo trip gave FRUK a chance for an exclusive face to face with Robert Francis to talk about the superb Heaven and his journey from hell, taking in the Ry Cooder and RHCP connections.

The latest podcast from Propermusic focuses on the Songlines Music Awards this week with Songlines editor Jo Frost, Nathaniel Handy, Tim Cumming & Trevor Dann. They cast their eyes down the list of 16 nominees this year and have a good banter along with excerpts from each nominee. Nominees We have included links where we have featured an artist. BEST ARTIST Abigail Washburn (for the album City of Refuge on …

★★★★★ With more than forty years at the forefront of American music Ry Cooder’s latest release ‘Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down’ sounds like a cue for a couple of characters from Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat to kick back with a jug of cheap wine. But there’s far more on offer than some slick slide guitar and paisano chivalry.

With a recent promise of Songs from the Past we spent some time looking back through our audio library which was very time consuming but a nostalgic experience and came across this: Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder – Talking Timbuktu.