The Ry Cooder Story

The Ry Cooder Story “The Ry Cooder Story“ delves deep into the legendary career of master guitarist Ry Cooder

18/09/2025

In 1968 and '69, Cooder contributed to several Rolling Stones albums and side projects. Some of this is shrouded in myth and controversy, and some questions will probably never be fully answered. It's pretty safe to say that Cooder only participated in a relatively small number of sessions. Or as Keith Richards put it in his memoir, "He was only there for a brief moment, and then he was gone again." Sometimes several years passed between recording and release.

08/09/2025

Cooder's soundtracks are nearly as good as his solo albums. He created some of his best pieces in this field. At the same time, cinema gave him the opportunity to work more experimentally and break free from the constraints of song structure. Which is your favorite soundtrack?

25/08/2025

The podcast has become a 500-page Amazon bestseller! "I Sing You a True Song: The Ry Cooder Story," the first comprehensive monograph to explore the full scope of Cooder’s work, delves into his early years as a precocious slide prodigy, his celebrated career as a prolific studio musician, and his eclectic solo albums and iconic film scores. It is available as a hardcover, paperback, or e-book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sing-You-True-Song-Cooder/dp/B0FL1DDPBQ/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.A0NRgftk_2xAJFs_vyHsEQ.b0raRDHSJbBWskzimUC3nVftzhI3JxRe1Tfeuq7ZGrs&qid=1756107985&sr=8-1

Can you believe it? I Sing You a True Song is #1 on Amazon! It's a "hot new release"! At least in some minor categories...
21/08/2025

Can you believe it? I Sing You a True Song is #1 on Amazon! It's a "hot new release"! At least in some minor categories. Either way, it's always great to see our favorite guitarist at the top of the charts. Thanks for all the great feedback and for helping raise awareness of the book!

06/08/2025

We proudly present I Sing You a True Song: The Ry Cooder Story, the perfect complement to our podcast, is now available in book form. After an insane amount of reorganizing, rewriting, and editing, this 500-page book is the first comprehensive monograph to explore the full scope of Cooder’s work. It includes a preface, a brand-new introduction, and all the information that will delight any Cooder fan, including a complete discography, a list of stage appearances, a bibliography, and an index. While most chapters are based on podcast episodes, some content has been moved or rearranged. For instance, one chapter is entirely devoted to the Rolling Stones. Similar to the podcast, I Sing You a True Song is a true do-it-yourself project. It is now available for purchase worldwide on Amazon as a print edition or e-book. Please spread the word about this labor of love. Thank you! Here‘s the link: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/Sing-You-True-Song-Cooder/dp/B0FKZWR5F2

18/06/2025

Out tomorrow: Get on Board (2022)! In our final episode for now, we discuss Cooder's brief U.S. tour with Rosanne Cash, titled The Music of Johnny Cash, as well as his latest collaboration with Taj Mahal, Get on Board. On this album, they pay tribute to two of their early musical heroes, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. We're still hoping for a sequel, but this could be a fitting conclusion to their long careers.

05/06/2025

Episode 42 out now: The Prodigal Son (2018). In 2015, Cooder went on tour with bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White of the renowned country band The Whites. The tour featured a lot of gospel music and directly inspired Cooder's presumably final solo album, The Prodigal Son, which was released in 2018. It's a great and fitting farewell, and there is much to say about it, as well as the subsequent North American and European tours.

22/05/2025

Out now: Episode 41: Live in San Francisco (2013). Hard as it is to believe, Live At The Great American Music Hall was only Cooder's second official full-length live album. As with 1977's Show Time, he had no intention of putting the emphasis on new music, but instead performed a great mix of his live classics. His band consisted almost entirely of old friends like Flaco Jiménez and Terry Evans, and family members like son Joachim, Juliette Commagere, and Robert Francis. In this episode, we also introduce them and the albums they made with Cooder in the years that followed.

08/05/2025

Episode 40 out now! A year after the deeply political Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, Cooder went one step further and made Election Special, his contribution to the 2012 presidential election in the United States. Clearly on Obama's side and genuinely angry about the corporate takeover of society, he made an album in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill and Pete Seeger: a collection of folk and rock songs for the modern depression. It is as relevant today as it was then, to say the least.

22/04/2025

Out this Thursday: Episode 39 - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down (2011)! In response to the Bush presidency, Cooder produced what could be described as the modern-day equivalent of the kind of dustbowl ballads Woody Guthrie once sang. On Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, Cooder took aim at politicians, corporate greed and military action – all issues close to Guthrie's heart in the 1930s and '40s.– In this episode we also talk about Cooder's first and only book, and a few other things.

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