Ry Cooder Interview 2014
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2014
- My favourite guitarist...
Composer, producer and master of the slide guitar, Ry Cooder has been a major proponent of roots music the world over throughout his long career. He’s utilized elements of blues, country, gospel,
folk, Tex-Mex, Celtic and Hawaiian music on his engrossing solo albums - as well as his session work for artists as diverse as Captain Beefheart, the Rolling Stones, Randy Newman, Little Feat and Pops Staples - and his Buena Vista Social Club project made Cuban music an international craze in the mid-’90s. That’s to say nothing of his evocative movie soundtracks for Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas and for director Walter Hill on films such as The Long Riders, Streets of Fire and Southern Comfort. Music journalist and author Barry Mazor will be interviewing Cooder about his incredible career and deep love of American music. - Hudba
Ry Cooder is a national treasure.
Global treasure. I don't think there is anybody alive who understands music and all its dimensions as comprehensively as Ry. He's one of the Greats. Importantly, he comes across as a genuine, kind, generous man, an all round good guy.
To be honest I have never listened to Ry Cooder's music. My musical interest was elsewhere.
But, having said that. I - among many other music lovers - owe this man a debt of gratitude.
Reason? He found in his own words - "The Nat King Cole Of Cuban Music Ibrahim Ferrer!"
A lost generation of Cuban singers and musicians. Forming the Buena Vista Social Club.
From the depth of my heart - Thank you for this Ry.
So thankful for everything this man did for my Dad Bla Pahinui and my grampa Gabby and Ohana. A couple weeks ago Dad gave me a guitar case that was a gift from Ry. My big regret in life is waiting so long to learn guitar!
so cool you are learning guitar! Ry is also a hero of mine. Respect to your father and grandfather
...rock on!
Amazing
Bought 'Chicken Skin Music' when it was first released, still one of my favorie lp's.
@@ffrederickskitty4607 me too :) ❤
What a great interview,should have pumped him full of coffee and let him talk all night long.The most respected musician of our time.
haha - good call
ballinvillon I just mildly disagree with you: he SHOULD BE the most respected msician of our time ...however, I fear he is not wich is a great shame, alas. The man is a freaking legend, really.
The greatest guitar player, singer and music historian of his generation. Love everything he has ever done. Go Ry!
Thank you Ry !
Ry Cooder and JJ Cale have long been my 2 favourite Artists and Guitarists their music is ALWAYS UP! YES I'm aware of, SRV Lonnie Mack BB and his 2xcousins,Freeddie and, Albert Jeedf, Beck Ajvert Lee n Clapton but none come near old one eye Ry nor JJ Cale of uplifting guitar!
Same here. All those players are my jam. Jj kale was amazing & his songs were simple yet so beautiful. His music has been staples for many groups. He wrote about an old man going fishing. So simple but fun.
So nice so good, marvelous man
Thank you Mr.Cooder.
Ry Cooder, I saw him several times
in Switzerland in the seventies and nineties. He is one of the greatest musicians of popular music. And as I hear, he's also a great human.
As Quincy Jones Said: "The person is first. Then comes the music and reflects him." Very true!
thanks to my neighbor I came into contact with Ry's work 8 years ago. the best personal discovery ever for me.
GOD==Amazing interview of a true genius.
From a mad keen 77yo Aussie fan,in the middle if the Corona virus,in lovely Melbourne,Australia.
Ry's music will live on forever.
A national treasure, genius on the slide guitar and all around wunderkind and inspiration. Love him. Thank you, Ry.
Only respect for this man, full of respect!!!
Ry absorbed his bandleader personality from Bob Wills. The humor. the asides. improv, no repeat.
Loved his music since I first heard him many, many years ago. Always on my iPod. I love that CZcams always takes me to his music, no matter where I start.
Such a pleasure. To enjoy his music and his intelligence. I live in Australia and if was not for the Americans we would all be eating sushi right now. Oh, well, we are. But at least we can do it listening to Ry Cooder. I thoroughly enjoy slide guitar and Mr.
Cooder's voice and the message he portrays. Long live Ry Cooder and God bless America for giving him to us.
Listen to Goodnight Irene and He will have to go. Just to name a few. God bless Ry Cooder. Have been an admirer for many years. If it was not for the Revolution when America fought the British, if it was not for the civil war to stop slavery as best it could, if it were not for the slaves who sang the songs they did we would not have the music that we have today. Most of the heartfelt music comes from America. And its history and the history of the people who lived and died there. Modern music is borne in the USA. What more can I say but thank you.
Listen to Johnny Dickinson
I have been a Ry Cooder fan most all of my life. I was drawn in by his Delta Blues slides and got hooked in the early 70s. We all have our legends like Jimmy Page and Chet Atkins. But I consider Ry Cooder the professor of technique and style. He is in a class by himself .
+GetsumJ If you are on Facebook, come join our "Ry Cooder Fans" Facebook group.
+Crystal Longdon I joined I think
+Ramon Goose I don't see a request from you, Ramon. Try this link in Facebook. We have a great group, would love to have you.
facebook.com/groups/312225228948256/
Total agreement. He's the reason I learned how to play the guitar. I wanted to make it sing like he does.
Ryland inspired me to take up Lapsteel Guitar, which has become my instrument of choice. I started out playing a 60's Silvertone in slack key anyway, it was a painless jump to Lapsteel.
He's not a ,"national treasure". He's a human treasure!
I was fortunate as a young guy of 20, to see Ry in a solo performance at the Liberty Hall in Houston in 1972?
He was the Ry you see in this interview. Awesome, inspiring, no BS, no huge ego, just a master even at his age then.
I am so grateful to have his music in my world.
bebe he has no ego. I love that about him
I was introduced to Ry Cooder by John Hiatt when we played in a club together in 1973 and John brought a Ry Cooder record out. I have never stopped loving his music since, and it’s a treasure to hear all of his stories and music. I went to see the movie Long Riders with my 3 brothers because of all the brothers in the film and I was even more thrilled to hear Ry Cooder’s music through the film. Thanks for capturing such great stories and shows. Love Ry more now than ever.
Sitting in my bedroom in the we hours of the morning in Adelaide Australia listening to this great man. Love it and his music especially his version of Prodigal son and Josephine. Love the master of slide.
I love this guy!!
Very articulate with some interesting stuff to say like van Morrison. Thanx
Glad I got to meet his mom, and then was introduced to his music, great guitar! Sad I didn't get to stay with the CAHV.
I live in a small English town pop 20,000 in rural Staffordshire.20 odd years ago Flaco Jimenez and his band with Oscar Montoya and a rhythm section who reminded me of the New York Dolls,played in a local club Olivers.I met Flaco in the bar of the pub next door and next day all of them spent lunchtime in my pub.Stetsons,boots amongst the tweed caps and farmers.Pure magic.
Hello Ry, I've been a big fan since the late 60s! Keep on Picking!
@19:22 Wow. I hope you guys caught that. Ry says that Joseph Spence was a huge influence. Incredible Caribbean guitarist/folk singer discovered in the 50s. Check him out and you will hear the influence in the guitar playing for sure and the vocals to some extent except Joes vocals were…well…something else. Great, important, informative interview!
Ry is one of my great heros...total dedication to the music.
an American musical treasure!
Ry Cooder is number one, on my list of favivorite musicians. This interview is really interesting! What a storyteller he is!
I'd love to read a book titled "I told my parents I was sick" filled with stories of ALL KINDS of discoveries made by lots of people who needed just the time ALONE to create something GREAT!
I’ve been a fan for decades, and can honestly say that Ry Cooder is my absolute favorite guitarist of all time. And I grew up with the greats on my radio: Clapton, Beck, Hendrix, Guy, Sumlin, Page, SRV, BB and the other Kings, Metheney, Atkins, etc.
Much respect and gratitude!!
Agreed
i was watching a movie, Thelma & Louise? back in 91 or whenever i waited for the music/musician soundtrack credits at the end & knew some of the names, but this Cooder guy i had to hear about from a soundtrack, my favorite is when he went to Timbuktu, Ali Farka Tourēs studio & they recorded an album together, so much spirit was opened up & let to sound out into the world with their collaborations
🙏 💜 🕯️
@@mindsigh4 Ali Farke actually came to Rys place to record 👍
I first became aware of Ry Cooder on the “Performance” soundtrack. I’d been turned on to Blues by my sister’s boyfriend but this was different - this was... visceral... A couple of years later, Little Feat appeared, and Lowell George flashed me back to that OTHER amazing slide-player l knew about and - nothing’s been the same since..! A Musician with a great big capital ‘M’. There are others. Steve Winwood’s one... Tom Petty God bless’im.... But Cooder..? Talented - bright - interesting.... the guy’s a downright legend
Ry is a Southern California cat and so iconoclastic in his speech and vernacular- it's a tremendous pleasure to hear him speak of the Ash Grove in Hollywood and Ed Pearl who I met at several parties. Ry feels like a true 'brother' as we say in surfer speak, in Santa Moncia speak...thanks for uploading this wonderful interview and Ry, 'long may you run!'
He's a great ambassador for SoCal. He sticks close to home these days. I never thought I'd ever get to see him live up here in Canada. He came around on tour again when the Prodigal Son came out. One of the best concerts I've ever seen. A religious experience.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.
What a brilliant musician & a BLOODY FANTASTIC INTERVIEW......
For those of us that have been deep into quality music and artistry for decades, this conversation is pure, unadulterated gold!!! It cannot be missed by anyone with even a passing interest and curiosity in music and the people who know and play it best! Ry is one of my few remaining true heroes!
So grateful that he didn't become a medical illustrator. The world of music would have been far less interesting for so many of us. I learn so much every time I listen to him speak.
If some strange circumstance forced me to listen to only one musician's work, I'd have to choose Ry Cooder. The depth and breadth of his music is unsurpassed.
Great choice! I’d be torn between Ry or John Prine. Tough call but in the end I’d have to go with Ry.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for posting this. Ry is a national treasure.
+Hankbreath Deluxe pleasure brother
could have listened for days to this man...
Great ! Great musician, great personality ...and that with big sense of humour and simplicity......getting older myself I appreciate this well hidden greatness ! No show offs ....
I watched the buena vista social club film in 1999, that ry cooder helped develop and I was transfixed. I flew down to cuba six months later and had a great time. I saw taj mahal around eight times but never ry cooder, he was never playing in the city I was visiting at the time, but im super grateful for his contribution to this genre
Ry Cooder influenced my guitar playing before I even picked up a guitar. My parents played Ry's albums when I was a little kid. Once I started playing guitar and eventually picked up slide guitar, someone asked if I'd ever listened to Ry Cooder. So, I found Paradise and Linch, reconciled the cover(on CD this time) and bought it right there. From the first note on the CD to the last, it brought me back to sitting at the dinner table with this music in the background. If not for those days in my youth listening, it must have soaked in by osmosis, I would not be playing slide the way I do. He is the "ZEN MASTER" of slide guitar.
A great interview..Ry Cooder is legend to all this chat happening on stage..to remember the past with these guys,is sensational..trying to explain things now is 8n the past..
I can't believe I got to see Ry Cooder with the Hamiltones in Toronto a couple years back, around the time The Prodigal Son came out. He doesn't seem to leave California too much these days, and it's such an incredible experience to see him do this thing live. I love the records, I grew up with them, and am in awe of what he does in the studio. But over and above everything, hearing him make music in front of a live audience with a group of talented people is the highest thrill, and reminds me how much I love not just Ry's music, but live music in general.
Get out this year and hear some live performers, even-no, ESPECIALLY if you haven't heard of them before. That's very much in the spirit of this music.
Ry has made that wonderful bucket list recording and it's wonderful!
No one but Ry could pull of white socks and slides and still look cool!!
Ry was a skinny kid teaching lessons at McCabes in The Ash Grove on Melrose in the late 60s. I wanted to take lessons from him but my schedule never worked with when he taught so I took lessons from another guy. Some years later I picked up Into the Purple Valley and I've been listening to him ever since. I pick up some licks from him here and there but never his mastery. I do agree with him, it's got to come from the heart and I do my best that way. Thanks for the lessons, Ry.
amazing - thanks for sharing your memories
What an engaging, intelligent and delightful interview.
Chicken Skin Music is still, 40 + yrs on, the best title for an album ever
Thanks Ramon and Thank You Ry Cooder
+Rosie 4 pleasure!
Ry's personality is as great as his playing. A warm erudite interview. Could have listen to him for hours
love this man's life and the stories!
I discovered Ry Cooder in the 1960s and I've never tired of his music.
My favorite musician, too...
What a grand love and curiosity. Humble , open to new musical person.alities and so fair minded
To offer fading musical careers
A platform to shine🤔😊❗️. Kind of like Leon Redbone minus Redbones
Curious ability to dissolve into those
Old standards. Real Gold!
It was '75 or '76 in New Orleans at either Jeds or the Maple Leaf...probably Jeds...before the show some friends of mine were sitting in with Ry backstage...I joined them and we talked for a while. he couldnt have been more gracious. Ive loved his music from the beginning.....what a national treasure
FatherCoughlin he is very gracious. Great guy. So kind.
One of my guitar hero's. A true master.
The world most underrated musician
Lose the "underrated" useless phrase. Ry has ALWAYS been very highly regarded by fellow musicians, critics and fans. Only someone who is unaware of music history would call Ry that.
Won MANY Grammies!
So grateful for Mr. Cooder’s Buena Vista recordings. They brought back music my mother used to sing while doing housework.
Wow, what a great interview. Thank you for posting. Ry Cooder is so modest, so unpretentious, and so talented. He is one of my all-time favorite musicians, and it was so fantastic to be able to 'spend an hour with him', courtesy of you.
Nice to hear a musician actually talk about music for a change -very interesting..Thanks Ramon.
As a multi instrumentalist and with incredible skills on the slide guitar
Ry is considering being a genius.and a great storyteller.
I was lucky enough to see Ry open for Captain Beefheart in 1971 in a gymnasium at Boston University. Saw him with Flaco at the Roxy in LA around 1977. Couple other times. Always fantastic.
I'm waitin' for you to interview him, Goose (!)
What a great storyteller (as well as a musician!). An amazing life!
wow! just wow! my older brother got me into Ry Cooder when i was 9, ty very much for putting this on for people like maself a big Ry Cooder fan from bonnie Scotland
I was lucky enough to be in the room for this!. I could have listened to him talk all night.
In a word Brilliant the man is a Genius!
Legend, very lucky to see him play Dublin in 2009. My all time greatest guitarist!
My favorite musician of all time. I first heard Ry Coder playing behind Gordon Lightfoot's cover of Me and Bobby McGee in 1960s. I was immediately hooked on slide guitar and Ry's approach to music.
Such a COOL story about meeting flaco jiminez!
A miracle moment for all of us!
My admiration for this man has just gone to a new level.
One of the best interviews i have seen, well worth 1 hour of your time.
Ry is an American Treasure! Woof!! Woof!!
Love Charlie Hayden!
His album of songs of the revolution that breaks down into a type of abstract free jazz...
Very cool to see him in a relaxed interview. What a great musician! I believe his son Is the apple that doesn’t fall far as well.
Fantastic, Ry is such a versatile player and great innovator Love it !
Mr Ryland Cooder......thank you ...for WHO u are !!
'Have loved this man's music since the 70's. Thanks to FM radio, we got to hear him. Only saw him in concert once. 'Wish he'd come back to play Canada!
my pleasure for uploading - its great to hear Ry in relaxed conversation
Ramon Goose Thanks so much for uploading this, Ramon. It is a wonderful interview.
Ramon Goose THANK YOU!!
Ramon Goose He's a genuine conversationalist. Complete, coherent sentences. Sense of humor. Musical talent. Polite; listens. Smart guy.
Don Reed An intelligent, insightful, uplifting, well-said comment. No less delightful.
+funwithFred its a pleasure
Police Dog Blues, Ry influenced many of us young performing guitarists in the 70s.
Having seen Ry in four venues, from a tiny audience solo in Long Island to Avery Fisher hall with huge audience and full orchestra back up in NYC, I can tell you that he is just an amazing talent.
Love you, Ry
I've been a mad-keen fan of Ry's for decades, now,..in my case, since I was hypnotised by what I regarded as the eeriest, weightiest, most powerful guitar-playing ( &, generally speaking, ensemble ambience..a big nod to David Lindley, here. ) I'd ever heard,.then or since. Thank you SO much for putting this marvellous interview online. A gem.
Fabulous interview. Dude let Cooder take the lead and talk about his history, adding comments only when needed. Good job.
"Paradise and Lunch" is the greatest "American" record ever made. A little bit of everything, just like America.
Could be. My Ry fave is into the purple valley
What a treat! What a guy!Thank you so much for the upload.
+Chris W pleasure
He was not afraid of change . Proving music is all encompassing.
What a great interview!!
Inspiring. Thanks!
Thoroughly enjoyable. Thanks for sharing!
Long time fan of Ry Cooder, Jimmy Buffet and Randy Edelman all great storytellers but I once heard a live interview with Ry telling stories. He told one that always stuck in my mind about a young couple being lovers got married then it all fell apart. Such lovely a story I wonder if others have come across it.?I goes for 15mins +.
I think you may be referring to a track off Paris, Texas "I knew these people"
thanks Joe really appreciate your answer I just listened to it, it blew me away again
Los Alegres de Teran were fantastic ! Ry knows his stuff !
saw him recently with the Ricky Skaggs and the Whites and yes... MELT!
Great interview. Besides being a master musician, Ry Cooder is one of the nicest curmudgeons you're ever likely to meet, and a natural-born storyteller. He should be named USA Ambassador of Music to the World.
+GreenManalishiUSA Indeed!
In the early 70's, I remember that Ford had a optional factory KASS-ETTE (LOL!) player which did record, either from the radio or from a microphone. Thanks, Ry, for mentioning that!
He has cleared confusion for me in my playing and recording
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thanks for up loading.
Pleasure
i love the mexican musicstyle from the breaking bad series. i started to search youtube and then i 'met' this unique guitarist. i am a huge stonesfan and it got me to the jamming with edward sessions. it blew my mind. it's a big shame i never heard of ry before. 🤯