Sought-after session player best known for his collaborations with Ry Cooder and Jackson Browne
July 2022
Paris, Texas review – Harry Dean Stanton unforgettable in haunting classic
Wim Wenders’ iconic vision of American alienation, starring Stanton as a weatherbeaten drifter, has held its mystery for 40 years
April 2022
‘The past is immaterial’: Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, reunited after 56 years
At 75 and 80 years old, the much-loved musicians have finally re-formed to pay tribute to their folk-blues heroes. They explain how old records taught them how to play – and how to live
June 2021
Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno
Alexis Petridis
The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads
September 2017
Harry Dean Stanton: gentleness, sensitivity, gallantry and painful masculinity
After decades of supporting roles and character parts, the late Harry Dean Stanton’s legend suddenly came into focus in Paris, Texas
July 2017
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On my radar: Brendan Gleeson’s cultural highlights
The star of Hampstead and Alone in Berlin on his Flann O’Brien obsession, the most thrilling piece of theatre he’s ever seen, and discovering Caravaggio
June 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about the wilderness
Mountain to forest, desert to ocean, scary creek to snowy crevasse, suggest music about or from wild, remote regions that inspire fear, serenity or adventure says Peter Kimpton
April 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about itinerants and migration – results
From Ian Dury via Woody Guthrie to a Romanian fanfare, RR regular suzi takes an entertaining route through a musical landscape inspired by last week’s topic
March 2015
Buena Vista Social Club: the legends look back
It was the soundtrack to every late-90s dinner party. But did Buena Vista Social Club sell a distorted, tourist-friendly view of Cuban culture? As the farewell tour heads for Britain, Laura Barton meets its surviving members
December 2013
Film blog
Top 10 music movies
From wild-haired rockers to joyful bolero singers, films with or about celebrated musicians have played a key part in the movies. Here, the Guardian and Observers' critics pick the 10 finest
September 2012
Ry Cooder: Election Special – review
Ry Cooder takes on America's rightwing politicians on his new album to great effect, writes Kitty Empire
August 2012
Ry Cooder: Election Special – review
Ry Cooder's take on the US presidential race is a brave, thoughtful and powerful work, writes Robin Denselow
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Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man'
The veteran guitarist on his new album of protest songs, Election Special, and how the Republican party is out to destroy America and Barack Obama's presidency
June 2012
Tom Paley's Old-Time Moonshine Revue: Roll on, Roll On – review
This remarkably fresh sounding album should be a career-reviver for Paley, writes Robin Denselow
September 2011
Ry Cooder: Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down – review
Ry Cooder: Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down – review
July 2011
Manuel Galbán obituary
Hail, hail, rock'n'roll
Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll
Laura Barton
June 2011
A history of folk and world music
Ry Cooder joins the Buena Vista Social Club
March 1996: Number 47 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music
