Ry Cooder Caricature

Ry Cooder Caricature, illustrated here in Amsterdam, Netherlands with his Martin 000-18 Mahogany in 1973, age 26.

Ryland Peter Cooder is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He 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.
He has released 17 albums to date.

Growing up in Los Angeles, he began playing the guitar when he was three years old. At the age of four, he accidentally stuck a knife in his left eye while trying to repair a toy car and has sported a glass eye ever since.

He has played with John Lee Hooker, Captain Beefheart, Gordon Lightfoot, Ali Farka Touré, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Randy Newman, Linda Ronstadt, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, David Lindley, The Chieftains, The Doobie Brothers, and Carla Olson and The Textones (on record and film).
He formed the band Little Village, and produced the album Buena Vista Social Club (1997), which became a worldwide hit.

His film work includes Walter Hill’s The Long Riders (1980), Southern Comfort (1981), Streets of Fire (1984), Brewster’s Millions (1985), Johnny Handsome, Last Man Standing (1996), Hill’s Trespass (1992) and Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors (1998).
Cooder along with Arlen Roth dubbed all slide and regular blues guitar parts in the 1986 film Crossroads, a take on blues legend Robert Johnson.

Cooder was ranked at No. 8 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.

Cooder has been married for 36 years (Susan Titleman) and has a 29-year-old son (Joachim), who is also a musician.

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