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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="رای کودر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="رای کودر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80" title="Рай Кудър – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Рай Кудър" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%AC%CE%B9_%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81" title="Ράι Κούντερ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ράι Κούντερ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="رای کودر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="رای کودر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4_%EC%BF%A0%EB%8D%94" title="라이 쿠더 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="라이 쿠더" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="راى كودر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="راى كودر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC" title="ライ・クーダー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ライ・クーダー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9" title="Кудер, Рай – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Кудер, Рай" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Kuder" title="Raj Kuder – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Raj Kuder" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Ry Cooder" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr 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class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Americana_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Americana (music)">Americana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roots_rock" title="Roots rock">roots rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues" 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href="/wiki/Mandolin" title="Mandolin">mandolin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bouzouki" title="Bouzouki">bouzouki</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banjo" title="Banjo">banjo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">slide guitar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1967–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonesuch_Records" title="Nonesuch Records">Nonesuch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elektra_Records" title="Elektra Records">Elektra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rycooder.com">RyCooder.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Ryland Peter Cooder</b> (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his <a href="/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">slide guitar</a> work, his interest in <a href="/wiki/Traditional_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional music">traditional music</a>, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries. </p><p>Cooder's solo work draws upon many genres. He has played with <a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker" title="John Lee Hooker">John Lee Hooker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart">Captain Beefheart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musician)" title="Taj Mahal (musician)">Taj Mahal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot" title="Gordon Lightfoot">Gordon Lightfoot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ali_Farka_Tour%C3%A9" title="Ali Farka Touré">Ali Farka Touré</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison">Van Morrison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Young" title="Neil Young">Neil Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Lindley_(musician)" title="David Lindley (musician)">David Lindley</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Chieftains" title="The Chieftains">the Chieftains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warren_Zevon" title="Warren Zevon">Warren Zevon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Galb%C3%A1n" title="Manuel Galbán">Manuel Galbán</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Doobie_Brothers" title="The Doobie Brothers">the Doobie Brothers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Feat" title="Little Feat">Little Feat</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Carla_Olson" title="Carla Olson">Carla Olson and the Textones</a> (on record and film). He formed the band <a href="/wiki/Little_Village" title="Little Village">Little Village</a>, and produced the album <i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(album)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (album)">Buena Vista Social Club</a></i> (1997), which became a worldwide hit; <a href="/wiki/Wim_Wenders" title="Wim Wenders">Wim Wenders</a> directed the <a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(film)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (film)">documentary film of the same name</a> (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. </p><p>Cooder was ranked at No. 8 on <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time",<sup id="cite_ref-RS100_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RS100-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while a 2010 list by <a href="/wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Gibson Guitar Corporation">Gibson Guitar Corporation</a> placed him at No. 32.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, he published a collection of short stories called <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Stories" title="Los Angeles Stories">Los Angeles Stories</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ryland Peter Cooder was born in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, on March 15, 1947,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of Emma Casaroli and Bill Cooder. His mother was of Italian descent. </p><p>He was raised in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica, California</a>, and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica_High_School" title="Santa Monica High School">Santa Monica High School</a> in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1960s, he briefly attended <a href="/wiki/Reed_College" title="Reed College">Reed College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He began playing the guitar when he was three years old.<sup id="cite_ref-rs_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rs-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At age four, he accidentally stuck a knife in his left eye and has sported a <a href="/wiki/Ocular_prosthesis" title="Ocular prosthesis">glass eye</a> ever since.<sup id="cite_ref-rs_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rs-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s">1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooder performed as part of a <a href="/wiki/Pickup_group" title="Pickup group">pickup trio</a> with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Monroe" title="Bill Monroe">Bill Monroe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doc_Watson" title="Doc Watson">Doc Watson</a>, in which he played <a href="/wiki/Banjo" title="Banjo">banjo</a>. The trio was not successful, but reflecting his early exposure to the instrument, Cooder subsequently applied banjo tunings and the <a href="/wiki/Scruggs_style" title="Scruggs style">three finger roll</a> to guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cooder first attracted attention playing with <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart">Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band</a>, notably on the 1967 album <i><a href="/wiki/Safe_as_Milk" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></i>, after previously having worked with <a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musician)" title="Taj Mahal (musician)">Taj Mahal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ed_Cassidy" title="Ed Cassidy">Ed Cassidy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Rising_Sons" title="Rising Sons">Rising Sons</a>. At a vital "warm-up" performance at the <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Fair_and_Magic_Mountain_Music_Festival" title="Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival">Mt. Tamalpais Festival</a> (June 10–11, 1967) shortly before the scheduled <a href="/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Monterey Pop Festival">Monterey Pop Festival</a> (June 16–18, 1967), the band began to play "<a href="/wiki/Electricity_(Captain_Beefheart_song)" title="Electricity (Captain Beefheart song)">Electricity</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Don_Van_Vliet" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Van Vliet">Don Van Vliet</a> froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the 10 ft (3.0 m) stage and landed on manager <a href="/wiki/Bob_Krasnow" title="Bob Krasnow">Bob Krasnow</a>. He later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This aborted any opportunity for breakthrough success at Monterey, as Cooder immediately decided he could no longer work with Van Vliet,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> effectively quitting both the event and the band on the spot. Cooder also played with <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a>, including on <i><a href="/wiki/12_Songs_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="12 Songs (Randy Newman album)">12 Songs</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks" title="Van Dyke Parks">Van Dyke Parks</a> worked with Newman and Cooder during the 1960s. Parks arranged Cooder's "One Meatball" according to Parks' 1984 interview with Bob Claster. </p><p>Cooder was a <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session musician</a> on various recording sessions with <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a> in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the albums <i><a href="/wiki/Let_It_Bleed" title="Let It Bleed">Let It Bleed</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Yank_Rachell" title="Yank Rachell">Yank Rachell-style</a> <a href="/wiki/Mandolin" title="Mandolin">mandolin</a> on "<a href="/wiki/Love_in_Vain" title="Love in Vain">Love in Vain</a>"), and <i><a href="/wiki/Sticky_Fingers" title="Sticky Fingers">Sticky Fingers</a></i>, on which he contributed the slide guitar on "<a href="/wiki/Sister_Morphine" title="Sister Morphine">Sister Morphine</a>". During this period, Cooder joined with <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Watts" title="Charlie Watts">Charlie Watts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Wyman" title="Bill Wyman">Bill Wyman</a>, and longtime Rolling Stones <a href="/wiki/Sideman" title="Sideman">sideman</a> <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Hopkins" title="Nicky Hopkins">Nicky Hopkins</a> to record <i><a href="/wiki/Jamming_with_Edward!" title="Jamming with Edward!">Jamming with Edward!</a></i>. Cooder also played slide guitar for the 1970 film soundtrack <i><a href="/wiki/Performance_(soundtrack)" title="Performance (soundtrack)">Performance</a></i>, which contained Jagger's first solo single, "<a href="/wiki/Memo_from_Turner" title="Memo from Turner">Memo from Turner</a>". The 1975 <a href="/wiki/Compilation_album" title="Compilation album">compilation album</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphosis_(Rolling_Stones_album)" title="Metamorphosis (Rolling Stones album)">Metamorphosis</a></i> features an uncredited Cooder contribution to Bill Wyman's "Downtown Suzie". </p><p>Cooder also collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Lowell_George" title="Lowell George">Lowell George</a> of <a href="/wiki/Little_Feat" title="Little Feat">Little Feat</a>, playing <a href="/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">bottleneck guitar</a> on the original version of "<a href="/wiki/Willin%27_(Little_Feat_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Willin' (Little Feat song)">Willin'</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also played bottleneck guitar and mandolin on two tracks on the Gordon Lightfoot album <i><a href="/wiki/Sit_Down_Young_Stranger" title="Sit Down Young Stranger">Sit Down Young Stranger</a></i> (later re-titled <i>If You Could Read My Mind</i>), recorded in late 1969 and released in early 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s">1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Throughout the 1970s, Cooder released a series of <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros. Records</a> albums that showcased his guitar work, initially on the <a href="/wiki/Reprise_Records" title="Reprise Records">Reprise Records</a> label, before being reassigned to the main Warners label along with many of Reprise's artists when the company retired the imprint. Cooder explored bygone musical <a href="/wiki/Genres" class="mw-redirect" title="Genres">genres</a> and found old-time recordings which he then personalized and updated. Thus, on his breakthrough album, <i><a href="/wiki/Into_the_Purple_Valley" title="Into the Purple Valley">Into the Purple Valley</a></i>, he chose unusual instrumentations and arrangements of blues, gospel, <a href="/wiki/Calypso_music" title="Calypso music">calypso</a>, and country songs (giving a tempo change to the cowboy ballad "Billy the Kid"). The album opened with the song "How Can You Keep on Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" by <a href="/wiki/Agnes_%22Sis%22_Cunningham" class="mw-redirect" title="Agnes "Sis" Cunningham">Agnes "Sis" Cunningham</a> about the <a href="/wiki/Okie" title="Okie">Okies</a> who were not welcomed when they migrated west to escape the <a href="/wiki/Dust_Bowl" title="Dust Bowl">Dust Bowl</a> in the 1930s – to which Cooder gave a rousing-yet-satirical march accompaniment. In 1970 he collaborated with Ron Nagle and performed on his <i>Bad Rice</i> album released on Warner Brothers. His later 1970s albums (with the exception of <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="Jazz (Ry Cooder album)">Jazz</a></i>, which explored ragtime/vaudeville) do not fall under a single genre description, but his self-titled first album could be described as blues; <i>Into the Purple Valley</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Boomer%27s_Story" title="Boomer's Story">Boomer's Story</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_and_Lunch" title="Paradise and Lunch">Paradise and Lunch</a></i> as <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk</a> and blues; <i><a href="/wiki/Chicken_Skin_Music" title="Chicken Skin Music">Chicken Skin Music</a></i> and <i>Showtime</i> as a mix of <a href="/wiki/Tejano_music" title="Tejano music">Tex-Mex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawaiian music">Hawaiian</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/Bop_Till_You_Drop" title="Bop Till You Drop">Bop Till You Drop</a></i> as 1950s <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">R&B</a>; and <i><a href="/wiki/Borderline_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="Borderline (Ry Cooder album)">Borderline</a></i> and <i>Get Rhythm</i> as rock-based. His 1979 album <i>Bop Till You Drop</i> was the first <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> album released that was <a href="/wiki/Digital_recording" title="Digital recording">recorded digitally</a>, using the early 3M digital mastering recorder.<sup id="cite_ref-Mixonline_2007_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mixonline_2007-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It yielded his biggest <a href="/wiki/Chart-topper" class="mw-redirect" title="Chart-topper">hit</a>, an R&B <a href="/wiki/Cover_version" title="Cover version">cover version</a> of <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>'s 1960s recording "<a href="/wiki/Little_Sister_(Elvis_Presley_song)" title="Little Sister (Elvis Presley song)">Little Sister</a>". </p><p>Cooder is credited on <a href="/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison">Van Morrison</a>'s 1979 album <i><a href="/wiki/Into_the_Music" title="Into the Music">Into the Music</a></i>, for slide guitar on the song "<a href="/wiki/Full_Force_Gale" title="Full Force Gale">Full Force Gale</a>". He also played guitar on <a href="/wiki/Judy_Collins" title="Judy Collins">Judy Collins</a>' 1970 concert tour, and is featured on <i><a href="/wiki/Living_(Judy_Collins_album)" title="Living (Judy Collins album)">Living</a></i>, the 1971 live album recorded during that tour. He also learned from and performed with <a href="/wiki/Gabby_Pahinui" title="Gabby Pahinui">Gabby Pahinui</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leland_Isaacs,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Leland Isaacs, Sr.">"Atta" Isaacs</a> in Hawaii during the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Renaissance" title="Hawaiian Renaissance">Hawaiian Renaissance</a> of the early 1970s. He is also credited for guitars on several 1971 recordings by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Sinatra" title="Nancy Sinatra">Nancy Sinatra</a> that were produced by Andy Wickman and Lenny Waronker – "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone", "Hook & Ladder", and "Glory Road". Cooder is credited as a mandolin player on Gordon Lightfoot's <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote_(album)" title="Don Quixote (album)">Don Quixote</a></i> album in 1972. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s">1980s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooder has worked as a studio musician and has also scored many <a href="/wiki/Film_soundtrack" class="mw-redirect" title="Film soundtrack">film soundtracks</a> including the <a href="/wiki/Wim_Wenders" title="Wim Wenders">Wim Wenders</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)" title="Paris, Texas (film)">Paris, Texas</a></i> (1984). Cooder based this soundtrack and title song "Paris, Texas" on <a href="/wiki/Blind_Willie_Johnson" title="Blind Willie Johnson">Blind Willie Johnson</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Dark_Was_the_Night_(Cold_Was_the_Ground)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)">Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)</a>", which he described as "the most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Musician <a href="/wiki/Dave_Grohl" title="Dave Grohl">Dave Grohl</a> has declared Cooder's score for <i>Paris, Texas</i> one of his favorite albums.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018 Cooder told <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> listeners: "[Wenders] did a very good job at capturing the ambiance out there in the desert, just letting the microphones and the <a href="/wiki/Nagra" title="Nagra">nagra machine</a> roll and get tones and sound from the desert itself, which I discovered was <a href="/wiki/E%E2%99%AD_tuning" class="mw-redirect" title="E♭ tuning">E♭</a>, was in the key of E♭ – that's the wind, you know, was nice. So we tuned everything to E♭."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)" was also the basis for Cooder's song "Powis Square" for the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Performance_(film)" title="Performance (film)">Performance</a></i>. His other film work includes <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hill_(filmmaker)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Hill (filmmaker)">Walter Hill</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Riders" title="The Long Riders">The Long Riders</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Southern_Comfort_(1981_film)" title="Southern Comfort (1981 film)">Southern Comfort</a></i> (1981), <i><a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Fire" title="Streets of Fire">Streets of Fire</a></i> (1984), <i><a href="/wiki/Brewster%27s_Millions_(1985_film)" title="Brewster's Millions (1985 film)">Brewster's Millions</a></i> (1985), <i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Handsome" title="Johnny Handsome">Johnny Handsome</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_(1996_film)" title="Last Man Standing (1996 film)">Last Man Standing</a></i> (1996), Hill's <i><a href="/wiki/Trespass_(1992_film)" title="Trespass (1992 film)">Trespass</a></i> (1992) and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a></i> (1998). Cooder, along with <a href="/wiki/Arlen_Roth" title="Arlen Roth">Arlen Roth</a>, dubbed all slide and regular blues guitar parts in the 1986 film <i><a href="/wiki/Crossroads_(1986_film)" title="Crossroads (1986 film)">Crossroads</a></i>, a take on blues legend <a href="/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Johnson (musician)">Robert Johnson</a>. In 1988, Cooder produced the album by his longtime backing vocalists <a href="/wiki/Bobby_King" title="Bobby King">Bobby King</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Evans_(musician)" title="Terry Evans (musician)">Terry Evans</a> on <a href="/wiki/Rounder_Records" title="Rounder Records">Rounder Records</a> titled <i>Live and Let Live</i>. He contributed his slide guitar work to every track. He also plays extensively on their 1990 self-produced Rounder release <i>Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves</i>. Cooder's music also appeared on two episodes of the television program <i>Tales From the Crypt</i>: "The Man Who Was Death" and "The Thing From the Grave".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984, Cooder played on two songs on the debut album by Carla Olson & the Textones, <i>Midnight Mission</i> – "Carla's Number One is to Survive" and the previously unreleased <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> song "Clean Cut Kid". Shortly thereafter he was writing and recording the music for the film <i>Blue City</i> and asked the band to appear in the film performing. (He took them to the studio and produced "You Can Run" which he also played on.) </p><p>In 1985, Cooder was a guest artist on the song "Rough Edges" from <a href="/wiki/Kim_Carnes" title="Kim Carnes">Kim Carnes</a>' album <i><a href="/wiki/Barking_at_Airplanes" title="Barking at Airplanes">Barking at Airplanes</a></i>. Kim named her son Ry as a tribute to Ry Cooder. </p><p>Also in 1988, Cooder produced and featured in the <a href="/wiki/Les_Blank" title="Les Blank">Les Blank</a>-directed concert documentary film <i>Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball</i> where he plays in collaboration with a selection of musicians famous in their various musical fields.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, he played a janitor in the <a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson" title="Jim Henson">Jim Henson</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Faffner_Hall" title="The Ghost of Faffner Hall">The Ghost of Faffner Hall</a></i>, in the episode "Music Is More Than Technique".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s">1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1990s, Cooder collaborated on two <a href="/wiki/World_music" title="World music">world music</a> "crossover" albums, which blended the traditional American musical genres that Cooder has championed throughout his career with the contemporary improvised music of India and Africa. For <i><a href="/wiki/A_Meeting_by_the_River" title="A Meeting by the River">A Meeting by the River</a></i> (1993), which also featured his son <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Cooder" title="Joachim Cooder">Joachim Cooder</a> on percussion, he teamed with <a href="/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music" title="Hindustani classical music">Hindustani</a> classical musician <a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">V.M. Bhatt</a>, a virtuoso of the <a href="/wiki/Mohan_Veena" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohan Veena">Mohan Veena</a> (a modified 20-string <a href="/wiki/Archtop_guitar" title="Archtop guitar">archtop guitar</a> of Bhatt's own invention) and Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari also known as Pinky Tabla Player. </p><p>In 1993 he teamed up with multi-instrumentalist <a href="/wiki/Ali_Farka_Tour%C3%A9" title="Ali Farka Touré">Ali Farka Touré</a> from <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a> to record the album <i><a href="/wiki/Talking_Timbuktu" title="Talking Timbuktu">Talking Timbuktu</a></i>, which he also produced. The album, released in 1994, also featured longtime Cooder collaborator <a href="/wiki/Jim_Keltner" title="Jim Keltner">Jim Keltner</a> on drums, veteran blues guitarist <a href="/wiki/Clarence_%22Gatemouth%22_Brown" title="Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown">Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown</a>, jazz bassist <a href="/wiki/John_Patitucci" title="John Patitucci">John Patitucci</a> and African percussionists and musicians including <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamma_Sankare&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamma Sankare (page does not exist)">Hamma Sankare</a> and Oumar Toure. Both albums won the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Global_Music_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album">Best World Music Album</a> in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Cooder also worked with <a href="/wiki/Tuvans" title="Tuvans">Tuvan</a> <a href="/wiki/Overtone_singing" title="Overtone singing">throat singers</a> for the score to the 1993 film <i><a href="/wiki/Geronimo:_An_American_Legend" title="Geronimo: An American Legend">Geronimo: An American Legend</a></i>. </p><p>In 1995 he performed in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_in_Concert:_Dreams_Come_True" title="The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True">The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True</a></i>, a musical performance of the popular story at the <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a> in New York to benefit the <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Defense_Fund" title="Children's Defense Fund">Children's Defense Fund</a>. The performance was originally broadcast on both TBS and TNT. It was issued on CD and video in 1996. </p><p>In the late 1990s Cooder played a significant role in the increased appreciation of traditional <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuban</a> music, due to his collaboration as producer of the <i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(album)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (album)">Buena Vista Social Club</a></i> (1997) recording, which became a worldwide hit and revived the careers of some of the greatest surviving exponents of 20th century Cuban music. <a href="/wiki/Wim_Wenders" title="Wim Wenders">Wim Wenders</a>, who had previously directed 1984's <i><a href="/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)" title="Paris, Texas (film)">Paris, Texas</a></i>, directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, <i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(film)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (film)">Buena Vista Social Club</a></i> (1999), which was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Award</a> in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-NY_Times_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_Times-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The enterprise cost him a $25,000 fine for violating the <a href="/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba" title="United States embargo against Cuba">United States embargo against Cuba</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s">2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooder's 2005 album <i><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A1vez_Ravine_(album)" title="Chávez Ravine (album)">Chávez Ravine</a></i> was touted by his <a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">record label</a> as being "a post-World War II-era American narrative of 'cool cats', radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball".<sup id="cite_ref-Nonesuch_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nonesuch-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The record is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A1vez_Ravine" class="mw-redirect" title="Chávez Ravine">Chávez Ravine</a>. Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside <a href="/wiki/Chicano" title="Chicano">Chicano</a> community that no longer exists. Cooder says, "Here is some music for a place you don't know, up a road you don't go. Chávez Ravine, where the sidewalk ends."<sup id="cite_ref-Nonesuch_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nonesuch-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Drawing from the various musical strains of Los Angeles, including <a href="/wiki/Conjunto" title="Conjunto">conjunto</a>, R&B, Latin pop, and jazz, Cooder and friends conjure the ghosts of Chávez Ravine and Los Angeles at mid-century. On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by <a href="/wiki/East_Los_Angeles,_California" title="East Los Angeles, California">East L.A.</a> legends like Chicano music patriarch <a href="/wiki/Lalo_Guerrero" title="Lalo Guerrero">Lalo Guerrero</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pachuco" title="Pachuco">Pachuco</a> boogie king <a href="/wiki/Don_Tosti" title="Don Tosti">Don Tosti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thee_Midniters" title="Thee Midniters">Thee Midniters</a> front man Little Willie G, and <a href="/wiki/Ersi_Arvizu" title="Ersi Arvizu">Ersi Arvizu</a>, of The Sisters and <a href="/wiki/El_Chicano" title="El Chicano">El Chicano</a>. </p><p>Cooder's next record was released in 2007. Entitled <i><a href="/wiki/My_Name_Is_Buddy" title="My Name Is Buddy">My Name Is Buddy</a></i>, it tells the story of Buddy Red Cat, who travels and sees the world in the company of his like-minded friends, Lefty Mouse and Rev. Tom Toad. The entire recording is a parable of the working class progressivism<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the first half of the American twentieth century, and even has a song featuring executed unionist <a href="/wiki/Joe_Hill_(activist)" title="Joe Hill (activist)">Joe Hill</a>. <i>My Name Is Buddy</i> was accompanied by a booklet featuring a story and illustration (by <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Valdez" title="Vincent Valdez">Vincent Valdez</a>) for each track, providing additional context to Buddy's adventures. </p><p>Cooder produced and performed on an album for <a href="/wiki/Mavis_Staples" title="Mavis Staples">Mavis Staples</a> entitled <i><a href="/wiki/We%27ll_Never_Turn_Back" title="We'll Never Turn Back">We'll Never Turn Back</a></i>, which was released on April 24, 2007. The <a href="/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album">concept album</a> focused on <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">Gospel</a> songs of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a> and also included two new original songs by Cooder.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cooder's album <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Flathead" title="I, Flathead">I, Flathead</a></i> was released on June 24, 2008. It is the completion of his California trilogy. Based on the <a href="/wiki/Drag_racing" title="Drag racing">drag racing</a> culture of the early 1960s, the album is set on the desert salt flats in southern California. The disc was also released as a deluxe edition with stories written by Cooder to accompany the music. </p><p>In late 2009, Cooder toured Japan, New Zealand, and Australia with <a href="/wiki/Nick_Lowe" title="Nick Lowe">Nick Lowe</a>, performing some of Lowe's songs and a selection of Cooder's own material, mainly from the 1970s. Joaquim Cooder (Ry's son) provided percussion, and <a href="/wiki/Juliette_Commagere" title="Juliette Commagere">Juliette Commagere</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Lilly" title="Alex Lilly">Alex Lilly</a> contributed backing vocals. </p><p>The song "Diaraby", which Cooder recorded with <a href="/wiki/Ali_Farka_Tour%C3%A9" title="Ali Farka Touré">Ali Farka Touré</a>, is used as the theme to <i><a href="/wiki/The_World_(radio_program)" title="The World (radio program)">The World</a>'s</i> Geo Quiz. <i>The World</i> is a radio show distributed by <a href="/wiki/Public_Radio_International" title="Public Radio International">Public Radio International</a>. </p><p>In 2009, Cooder performed in <i><a href="/wiki/The_People_Speak_(film)" title="The People Speak (film)">The People Speak</a></i>, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian <a href="/wiki/Howard_Zinn" title="Howard Zinn">Howard Zinn</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States" title="A People's History of the United States">A People's History of the United States</a></i>. Cooder performed with Bob Dylan and Van Dyke Parks on the documentary broadcast on December 13, 2009, on the <a href="/wiki/History_(U.S._TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="History (U.S. TV channel)">History Channel</a>. They played "<a href="/wiki/Do_Re_Mi_(Woody_Guthrie_song)" title="Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie song)">Do Re Mi</a>" and reportedly a couple of other <a href="/wiki/Woody_Guthrie" title="Woody Guthrie">Guthrie</a> songs that were excluded from the final edit. He also traveled with the band <a href="/wiki/Los_Tigres_del_Norte" title="Los Tigres del Norte">Los Tigres del Norte</a> and recorded the 2010 album <i><a href="/wiki/San_Patricio_(album)" title="San Patricio (album)">San Patricio</a></i> with the Chieftains, <a href="/wiki/Lila_Downs" title="Lila Downs">Lila Downs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liam_Neeson" title="Liam Neeson">Liam Neeson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks" title="Van Dyke Parks">Van Dyke Parks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Cenzontles" title="Los Cenzontles">Los Cenzontles</a>, and Los Tigres.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010s">2010s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_%282%29.jpg/220px-Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_%282%29.jpg/330px-Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_%282%29.jpg/440px-Ry_Cooder_19Aug2015_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1875" /></a><figcaption>Cooder playing the electric <a href="/wiki/Bouzouki" title="Bouzouki">bouzouki</a> in August 2015</figcaption></figure> <p>In June 2010, responding to the passage of <a href="/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070" title="Arizona SB 1070">Arizona SB 1070</a>, he released the single "Quicksand", which tells the story of Mexicans attempting to emigrate to Arizona through the desert.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cooder's critically acclaimed<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> new album <i><a href="/wiki/Pull_Up_Some_Dust_and_Sit_Down" title="Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down">Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down</a></i>, released on August 30, 2011, contains politically charged songs such as "No Banker Left Behind"<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was inspired by a <a href="/wiki/Robert_Scheer" title="Robert Scheer">Robert Scheer</a> column.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, he published a collection of short stories called <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Stories" title="Los Angeles Stories">Los Angeles Stories</a></i>, written about people living in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s. The book's characters are mostly talented or skilled, clever or hardworking people living in humble circumstances. With story titles such as "La vida es un sueño" and "Kill me, por favor", the collection's stories often have a Hispanic theme, and the book deals partially with Latinos living in Los Angeles during this time. </p><p>An <i><a href="/wiki/American_Songwriter" title="American Songwriter">American Songwriter</a></i> article in 2012 suggested that Cooder's recent string of solo albums have often taken on an allegorical, sociopolitical bent. Music journalist Evan Schlansky said that "Cooder's latest effort, <i><a href="/wiki/Election_Special" title="Election Special">Election Special</a></i> (released August 21, 2012, on Nonesuch/Perro Verde) doesn't mince words. It's designed to send a message to the 'deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar'".<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The album was composed in support of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> and President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in the 2012 election. </p><p>On September 10, 2013, Cooder released <i><a href="/wiki/Live_in_San_Francisco_(Ry_Cooder_and_Corridos_Famosos_album)" title="Live in San Francisco (Ry Cooder and Corridos Famosos album)">Live in San Francisco</a></i>, featuring the Corridos Famosos band, including <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Cooder" title="Joachim Cooder">Joachim Cooder</a> on drums; <a href="/wiki/Robert_Francis_(musician)" title="Robert Francis (musician)">Robert Francis</a> on bass; vocalists Terry Evans, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_McCuller" title="Arnold McCuller">Arnold McCuller</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Juliette_Commagere" title="Juliette Commagere">Juliette Commagere</a>; <a href="/wiki/Flaco_Jim%C3%A9nez" title="Flaco Jiménez">Flaco Jiménez</a> on accordion; and the Mexican brass band La Banda Juvenil. The album was recorded during a two-night run at <a href="/wiki/Great_American_Music_Hall" title="Great American Music Hall">Great American Music Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, August 31 and September 1, 2011. It is Cooder's first official live recording since <i>Show Time</i> in 1977 (which had also been recorded at Great American Music Hall).<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Cooder toured with <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Skaggs" title="Ricky Skaggs">Ricky Skaggs</a>, Sharon White and other members of <a href="/wiki/The_Whites" title="The Whites">the Whites</a> with their "Music for The Good People" show.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tour continued through into 2016. </p><p>On May 11, 2018, Cooder released his first solo album in six years entitled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prodigal_Son_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="The Prodigal Son (Ry Cooder album)">The Prodigal Son</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The subsequent tour featured opening performances by his son, Joachim, who also accompanied Cooder on drums.<sup id="cite_ref-Prodigal_Son_tour_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prodigal_Son_tour-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, he toured with Rosanne Cash on a brief tour as a tribute to Johnny Cash called "Cooder and Cash on Cash".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020s">2020s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 22, 2022, Cooder and Taj Mahal released <i>Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1988 <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> (Best Recording for Children) – <i>Pecos Bill</i>, producer (<a href="/wiki/Rabbit_Ears_Productions" title="Rabbit Ears Productions">Rabbit Ears Productions</a>)</li> <li>1993 Grammy Award (<a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Global_Music_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album">Best World Music Album</a>) – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Meeting_by_the_River" title="A Meeting by the River">A Meeting by the River</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a>)</li> <li>1994 Grammy Award (Best World Music Album) – <i><a href="/wiki/Talking_Timbuktu" title="Talking Timbuktu">Talking Timbuktu</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ali_Farka_Toure" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Farka Toure">Ali Farka Toure</a></i></li> <li>1997 Grammy Award (Best Tropical Latin Performance) – <i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(album)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (album)">Buena Vista Social Club</a></i></li> <li>2003 Grammy Award (Best Pop Instrumental Album) – <i><a href="/wiki/Mambo_Sinuendo" title="Mambo Sinuendo">Mambo Sinuendo</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Galb%C3%A1n" title="Manuel Galbán">Manuel Galbán</a></li> <li>2003 Grammy Award (Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album) – <i>Buenos Hermanos</i>, producer (<a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Ferrer" title="Ibrahim Ferrer">Ibrahim Ferrer</a>, artist)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2000 – <a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorate">Honorary doctorate</a> from <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_University,_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's University, Canada">Queen's University, Canada</a></li> <li>2001 – Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_the_Arts" title="California Institute of the Arts">California Institute of the Arts</a></li> <li>2017 – <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards" title="BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards">BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards</a> – Lifetime Achievement Award<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2018 – <a href="/wiki/Montreal_International_Jazz_Festival" title="Montreal International Jazz Festival">Montreal International Jazz Festival</a> – Spirit Award <sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Solo_albums">Solo albums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Solo albums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ry_Cooder_(album)" title="Ry Cooder (album)">Ry Cooder</a></i> (December 1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Into_the_Purple_Valley" title="Into the Purple Valley">Into the Purple Valley</a></i> (February 1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boomer%27s_Story" title="Boomer's Story">Boomer's Story</a></i> (November 1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_and_Lunch" title="Paradise and Lunch">Paradise and Lunch</a></i> (May 1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chicken_Skin_Music" title="Chicken Skin Music">Chicken Skin Music</a></i> (October 1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Time_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="Show Time (Ry Cooder album)">Show Time</a></i> (January 1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="Jazz (Ry Cooder album)">Jazz</a></i> (June 1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bop_Till_You_Drop" title="Bop Till You Drop">Bop Till You Drop</a></i> (August 1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Borderline_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="Borderline (Ry Cooder album)">Borderline</a></i> (October 1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Slide_Area" title="The Slide Area">The Slide Area</a></i> (April 1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Get_Rhythm_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="Get Rhythm (Ry Cooder album)">Get Rhythm</a></i> (November 1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A1vez_Ravine_(album)" title="Chávez Ravine (album)">Chávez Ravine</a></i> (May 2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Name_Is_Buddy" title="My Name Is Buddy">My Name Is Buddy</a></i> (March 2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I,_Flathead" title="I, Flathead">I, Flathead</a></i> (June 2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pull_Up_Some_Dust_and_Sit_Down" title="Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down">Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down</a></i> (August 2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Election_Special" title="Election Special">Election Special</a></i> (August 2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Prodigal_Son_(Ry_Cooder_album)" title="The Prodigal Son (Ry Cooder album)">The Prodigal Son</a></i> (May 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compilations">Compilations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Compilations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Why Don't You Try Me Tonight</i> (1986)</li> <li><i>River Rescue – The Very Best of Ry Cooder</i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Music_by_Ry_Cooder" title="Music by Ry Cooder">Music by Ry Cooder</a></i> (1995) (two-disc set of film music)</li> <li><i>The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed</i> (October 2008)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles">Singles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Singles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/He%27ll_Have_to_Go" title="He'll Have to Go">He'll Have to Go</a>" / "The Bourgeouis Blues" (1977; Reprise Records)</li> <li>"Little Sister" / "Down In Hollywood" (1979; Warner Records)</li> <li>"Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)" Recorded live, October 25, 1980, at Victoria Apollo, London / "If Walls Could Talk" Recorded live, February 26, 1981, at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California / "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" Recorded live, February 26, 1981, at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California / "Look at Granny Run Run" Recorded live, February 26, 1981, at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California (1981; Warner Records)</li> <li>"Gypsy Woman"/ "Alimony" (1982; Nonesuch Records)</li> <li>"Get Rhythm"/ "Get Your Lies Straight" / "Down in Hollywood" (1988)</li> <li>"Come Down" / "Get Rhythm" / "Little Sister" (1994)</li> <li>"Quicksand" (June 2010)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collaborations">Collaborations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Collaborations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Tanyet</i> (1967) (with The Ceyleib People)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jamming_with_Edward!" title="Jamming with Edward!">Jamming with Edward!</a></i> (<i>Let It Bleed sessions</i>, 1969, with <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Hopkins" title="Nicky Hopkins">Nicky Hopkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Wyman" title="Bill Wyman">Bill Wyman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Watts" title="Charlie Watts">Charlie Watts</a>) (1972)</li> <li>"GABBY PAHINUI HAWAIIAN BAND vol.1" Gaby Pahinui and Ry Cooder (1975)</li> <li>"GABBY PAHINUI HAWAIIAN BAND vol.2" Gaby Pahinui and Ry Cooder (1977)</li> <li><i>Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball</i> (1988)</li> <li><i>Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder</i> with <a href="/wiki/Rising_Sons" title="Rising Sons">Rising Sons</a> (recorded 1965/66, released 1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Village_(album)" title="Little Village (album)">Little Village</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Meeting_by_the_River" title="A Meeting by the River">A Meeting by the River</a></i> (1993) (with <a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Talking_Timbuktu" title="Talking Timbuktu">Talking Timbuktu</a></i> (1994) (with <a href="/wiki/Ali_Farka_Tour%C3%A9" title="Ali Farka Touré">Ali Farka Touré</a>)</li> <li><i>Ry Cooder/Lindley Family: Live At The Vienna Opera House</i> (1995) with <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Cooder" title="Joachim Cooder">Joachim Cooder</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Lindley_(musician)" title="David Lindley (musician)">David Lindley</a> and Rosanne Lindley</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Black_Veil_(album)" title="The Long Black Veil (album)">The Long Black Veil</a></i> (1995) (with <a href="/wiki/The_Chieftains" title="The Chieftains">the Chieftains</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(album)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (album)">Buena Vista Social Club</a></i> (September 1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_Presents_Ibrahim_Ferrer" title="Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer">Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer</a></i> (1999) (with <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Ferrer" title="Ibrahim Ferrer">Ibrahim Ferrer</a>)</li> <li><i>Hollow Bamboo</i> with <a href="/wiki/Jon_Hassell" title="Jon Hassell">Jon Hassell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ronu_Majumdar" title="Ronu Majumdar">Ronu Majumdar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bansuri" title="Bansuri">bansuri</a>) (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mambo_Sinuendo" title="Mambo Sinuendo">Mambo Sinuendo</a></i> (January 2003) (with <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Galb%C3%A1n" title="Manuel Galbán">Manuel Galbán</a>)</li> <li><i>Buenos Hermanos</i> (2003) (with Ibrahim Ferrer)</li> <li><i>Mi Sueño</i> (2007) (with Ibrahim Ferrer, production of 'Melodía del río' only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_at_Carnegie_Hall" title="Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall">Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall</a></i> (2008) (with <a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club" title="Buena Vista Social Club">Buena Vista Social Club</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/San_Patricio_(album)" title="San Patricio (album)">San Patricio</a></i> (March 2010) (with the Chieftains)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_in_San_Francisco_(Ry_Cooder_and_Corridos_Famosos_album)" title="Live in San Francisco (Ry Cooder and Corridos Famosos album)">Live in San Francisco</a></i> (September 2013) (with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Corridos_Famosos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Corridos Famosos (page does not exist)">Corridos Famosos</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lost_and_Found_(Buena_Vista_Social_Club_album)" title="Lost and Found (Buena Vista Social Club album)">Lost and Found</a></i> (March 2015) (with <a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club" title="Buena Vista Social Club">Buena Vista Social Club</a>, production of 'Macusa' and 'Lágrimas Negras' only)</li> <li><i>Get On Board</i> (May 2022) (with <a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musician)" title="Taj Mahal (musician)">Taj Mahal</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soundtracks">Soundtracks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Soundtracks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Performance_(soundtrack)" title="Performance (soundtrack)">Performance</a></i> (1970, three of 13 tracks)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Riders" title="The Long Riders">The Long Riders</a></i> (June 1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Southern_Comfort_(1981_film)" title="Southern Comfort (1981 film)">Southern Comfort</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Border_(1982_film)" title="The Border (1982 film)">The Border</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Fire" title="Streets of Fire">Streets of Fire</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)" title="Paris, Texas (film)">Paris, Texas</a></i> (February 1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alamo_Bay" title="Alamo Bay">Alamo Bay</a></i> (August 1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blue_City_(film)" title="Blue City (film)">Blue City</a></i> (July 1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crossroads_(1986_soundtrack)" title="Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)">Crossroads</a></i> (July 1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cocktail_(1988_film)" title="Cocktail (1988 film)">Cocktail</a></i> (1988, one track: "<a href="/wiki/All_Shook_Up" title="All Shook Up">All Shook Up</a>")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Handsome" title="Johnny Handsome">Johnny Handsome</a></i> (October 1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trespass_(film_score)" title="Trespass (film score)">Trespass</a></i> (January 1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Geronimo:_An_American_Legend" title="Geronimo: An American Legend">Geronimo: An American Legend</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_(1996_film)" title="Last Man Standing (1996 film)">Last Man Standing</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_End_of_Violence" title="The End of Violence">The End of Violence</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Blueberry_Nights" title="My Blueberry Nights">My Blueberry Nights</a></i> (2007)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_session_musician">As session musician</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: As session musician"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Safe_as_Milk" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></i> (1967) with <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart">Captain Beefheart</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(album)" title="Taj Mahal (album)">Taj Mahal</a></i> (1968) with <a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musician)" title="Taj Mahal (musician)">Taj Mahal</a></li> <li><i>Gentle Soul</i> (1968) with The <a href="/wiki/Gentle_Soul" title="Gentle Soul">Gentle Soul</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neil_Young_(album)" title="Neil Young (album)">Neil Young</a></i> (1968) with <a href="/wiki/Neil_Young" title="Neil Young">Neil Young</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Head_(The_Monkees_album)" title="Head (The Monkees album)">Head</a></i> (1968) with <a href="/wiki/The_Monkees" title="The Monkees">the Monkees</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Permanent_Damage_(The_GTOs_album)" title="Permanent Damage (The GTOs album)">Permanent Damage</a></i> (1969) with <a href="/wiki/The_GTOs" title="The GTOs">the GTOs</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hard_%27N%27_Heavy_(with_Marshmallow)" title="Hard 'N' Heavy (with Marshmallow)">Hard 'N' Heavy (with Marshmallow)</a></i> (1969) <a href="/wiki/Paul_Revere_%26_the_Raiders" title="Paul Revere & the Raiders">Paul Revere & the Raiders</a></li> <li><i>Border Town</i> (1969) with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fusion_(band)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fusion (band) (page does not exist)">Fusion</a><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Longbranch_Pennywhistle_(album)" title="Longbranch Pennywhistle (album)">Longbranch Pennywhistle</a></i> (1969) with <a href="/wiki/Longbranch_Pennywhistle" title="Longbranch Pennywhistle">Longbranch Pennywhistle</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let_It_Bleed" title="Let It Bleed">Let It Bleed</a></i> (1969) with <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Something_Better_(Marianne_Faithfull_song)" title="Something Better (Marianne Faithfull song)">Something Better</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sister_Morphine" title="Sister Morphine">Sister Morphine</a>" (1969) with <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull" title="Marianne Faithfull">Marianne Faithfull</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Running_Down_the_Road" title="Running Down the Road">Running Down the Road</a></i> (1969) with <a href="/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie" title="Arlo Guthrie">Arlo Guthrie</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/12_Songs_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="12 Songs (Randy Newman album)">12 Songs</a></i> (1970) with <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Candlestickmaker" title="The Candlestickmaker">The Candlestickmaker</a></i> (1970) with <a href="/wiki/Ron_Elliott_(musician)" title="Ron Elliott (musician)">Ron Elliott</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Washington_County_(album)" title="Washington County (album)">Washington County</a></i> (1970) with Arlo Guthrie</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stained_Glass_Morning" title="Stained Glass Morning">Stained Glass Morning</a></i> (1970) with <a href="/wiki/Scott_McKenzie" title="Scott McKenzie">Scott McKenzie</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sit_Down_Young_Stranger" title="Sit Down Young Stranger">Sit Down Young Stranger</a></i> (1970) with <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot" title="Gordon Lightfoot">Gordon Lightfoot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crazy_Horse_(album)" title="Crazy Horse (album)">Crazy Horse</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i>Stories</i> (1971) with <a href="/wiki/David_Blue_(musician)" title="David Blue (musician)">David Blue</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sticky_Fingers" title="Sticky Fingers">Sticky Fingers</a></i> (1971) with <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Feat_(album)" title="Little Feat (album)">Little Feat</a></i> (1971) with <a href="/wiki/Little_Feat" title="Little Feat">Little Feat</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She_Used_to_Wanna_Be_a_Ballerina" title="She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina">She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina</a></i> (1971) with <a href="/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie" title="Buffy Sainte-Marie">Buffy Sainte-Marie</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Living_(Judy_Collins_album)" title="Living (Judy Collins album)">Living</a></i> (1971) with <a href="/wiki/Judy_Collins" title="Judy Collins">Judy Collins</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rita_Coolidge_(album)" title="Rita Coolidge (album)">Rita Coolidge</a></i> (1971) with <a href="/wiki/Rita_Coolidge" title="Rita Coolidge">Rita Coolidge</a></li> <li><i>Petaluma</i> (1972) with <a href="/wiki/Norman_Greenbaum" title="Norman Greenbaum">Norman Greenbaum</a></li> <li><i>Salty</i> (1972) with Alex Richman<sup id="cite_ref-Discogs_Alex_Richman_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Discogs_Alex_Richman-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sail_Away_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="Sail Away (Randy Newman album)">Sail Away</a></i> (1972) with Randy Newman</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stories_We_Could_Tell" title="Stories We Could Tell">Stories We Could Tell</a></i> (1972) with <a href="/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers" title="The Everly Brothers">the Everly Brothers</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote_(album)" title="Don Quixote (album)">Don Quixote</a></i> (1972) with Gordon Lightfoot</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hobo%27s_Lullaby_(album)" title="Hobo's Lullaby (album)">Hobo's Lullaby</a></i> (1972) with Arlo Guthrie</li> <li><i>Rod Taylor</i> (1973) with <a href="/wiki/Roderick_Taylor" title="Roderick Taylor">Rod Taylor</a><sup id="cite_ref-AllMusic_Rod_Taylor_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic_Rod_Taylor-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Last_of_the_Brooklyn_Cowboys" title="Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys">Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys</a></i> (1973) with Arlo Guthrie</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maria_Muldaur_(album)" title="Maria Muldaur (album)">Maria Muldaur</a></i> (1973) with <a href="/wiki/Maria_Muldaur" title="Maria Muldaur">Maria Muldaur</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Old_Boys_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="Good Old Boys (Randy Newman album)">Good Old Boys</a></i> (1974) with Randy Newman</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie_(album)" title="Arlo Guthrie (album)">Arlo Guthrie</a></i> (1974) with Arlo Guthrie</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stampede_(The_Doobie_Brothers_album)" title="Stampede (The Doobie Brothers album)">Stampede</a></i> (1975) with the <a href="/wiki/Doobie_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Doobie Brothers">Doobie Brothers</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Criminals" title="Little Criminals">Little Criminals</a></i> (1977) with Randy Newman</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Collar_(film)" title="Blue Collar (film)">Blue Collar</a></i> (1978) (soundtrack)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Into_the_Music" title="Into the Music">Into the Music</a></i> (1979) with <a href="/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison">Van Morrison</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Nukes:_The_Muse_Concerts_for_a_Non-Nuclear_Future" title="No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future">No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Money_and_Cigarettes" title="Money and Cigarettes">Money and Cigarettes</a></i> (1983) with <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a></li> <li><i>Midnight Mission</i> (1984) <a href="/wiki/Carla_Olson" title="Carla Olson">Carla Olson</a> and the Textones</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bring_the_Family" title="Bring the Family">Bring the Family</a></i> (1987) with <a href="/wiki/John_Hiatt" title="John Hiatt">John Hiatt</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trio_(Dolly_Parton,_Linda_Ronstadt_and_Emmylou_Harris_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris album)">Trio</a></i> (1987) with <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emmylou_Harris" title="Emmylou Harris">Emmylou Harris</a></li> <li><i>Live and Let Live</i> (1988) with <a href="/wiki/Bobby_King" title="Bobby King">Bobby King</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Evans_(musician)" title="Terry Evans (musician)">Terry Evans</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Party_of_One" title="Party of One">Party of One</a></i> (1990) <a href="/wiki/Nick_Lowe" title="Nick Lowe">Nick Lowe</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Lucky_(John_Lee_Hooker_album)" title="Mr. Lucky (John Lee Hooker album)">Mr. Lucky</a></i> (1991) with <a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker" title="John Lee Hooker">John Lee Hooker</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Warm_Your_Heart" title="Warm Your Heart">Warm Your Heart</a></i> (1991) <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Neville" title="Aaron Neville">Aaron Neville</a></li> <li><i>Peace to the Neighborhood</i> (1992) <a href="/wiki/Pops_Staples" title="Pops Staples">Pops Staples</a></li> <li><i>Father Father</i> (1994) Pops Staples</li> <li><i>King Cake Party</i> (1994) with the Zydeco Party Band</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tractors_(album)" title="The Tractors (album)">The Tractors</a></i> (1994) with <a href="/wiki/The_Tractors" title="The Tractors">the Tractors</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Toda_Cuba_le_Gusta" title="A Toda Cuba le Gusta">A Toda Cuba le Gusta</a></i> (1997) with the <a href="/wiki/Afro-Cuban_All_Stars" title="Afro-Cuban All Stars">Afro-Cuban All Stars</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Dog,_Happy_Man" title="Good Dog, Happy Man">Good Dog, Happy Man</a></i> (1999) with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Frisell" title="Bill Frisell">Bill Frisell</a></li> <li><i>Sublime Ilusión</i> (1999) with <a href="/wiki/Eliades_Ochoa" title="Eliades Ochoa">Eliades Ochoa</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chanchullo_(album)" title="Chanchullo (album)">Chanchullo</a></i> 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Cooder</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Films">Films</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, California; March 25, 1987</i> (1987), Director: <a href="/wiki/Les_Blank" title="Les Blank">Les Blank</a>, Producer: Ry Cooder, Flower Films and Warner Brothers. Records.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Written_works">Written works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Written works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Stories" title="Los Angeles Stories">Los Angeles Stories</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore" title="City Lights Bookstore">City Lights Publishers</a> (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry_Cooder&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Village</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Meeting_by_the_River" title="A Meeting by the River">A Meeting by the River</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Talking_Timbuktu" title="Talking Timbuktu">Talking Timbuktu</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_(album)" title="Buena Vista Social Club (album)">Buena Vista Social Club</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mambo_Sinuendo" title="Mambo Sinuendo">Mambo Sinuendo</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_at_Carnegie_Hall" title="Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall">Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/San_Patricio_(album)" title="San Patricio (album)">San Patricio</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_in_San_Francisco_(Ry_Cooder_and_Corridos_Famosos_album)" title="Live in San Francisco (Ry Cooder and Corridos Famosos album)">Live in San Francisco</a></i> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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title="Blue City (film)">Blue City</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crossroads_(1986_soundtrack)" title="Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)">Crossroads</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Handsome#Soundtrack" title="Johnny Handsome">Johnny Handsome</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trespass_(film_score)" title="Trespass (film score)">Trespass</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Geronimo:_An_American_Legend" title="Geronimo: An American Legend">Geronimo: An American Legend</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_(1996_film)" title="Last Man Standing (1996 film)">Last Man Standing</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_End_of_Violence" title="The End of Violence">The End of Violence</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)#Soundtrack" title="Primary Colors (film)">Primary Colors</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Blueberry_Nights#Soundtrack" title="My Blueberry Nights">My Blueberry Nights</a></i> 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Original Music">BOM</abbr>) (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirjo_Honkasalo" title="Pirjo Honkasalo">Pirjo Honkasalo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pekka_Lehto" title="Pekka Lehto">Pekka Lehto</a> (<abbr title="Best Application of Music">BAM</abbr>) (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Lamy" title="Benoît Lamy">Benoît Lamy</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astor_Piazzolla" title="Astor Piazzolla">Astor Piazzolla</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C5%8Dru_Takemitsu" title="Tōru Takemitsu">Tōru Takemitsu</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Haneke" title="Michael Haneke">Michael Haneke</a> (<abbr title="Best Use of Music in Film">BUMF</abbr>) (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kamen" title="Michael Kamen">Michael Kamen</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachid_Bouchareb" title="Rachid Bouchareb">Rachid Bouchareb</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Robbins_(composer)" title="David Robbins (composer)">David Robbins</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hou_Hsiao-hsien" title="Hou Hsiao-hsien">Hou Hsiao-hsien</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Devreese" title="Frédéric Devreese">Frédéric Devreese</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%B4n-Th%E1%BA%A5t_Ti%E1%BA%BFt" title="Tôn-Thất Tiết">Tôn-Thất Tiết</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruno_Coulais" title="Bruno Coulais">Bruno Coulais</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vangelis" title="Vangelis">Vangelis</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Fisher_Turner" title="Simon Fisher Turner">Simon Fisher Turner</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Portman" title="Rachel Portman">Rachel Portman</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tan_Dun" title="Tan Dun">Tan Dun</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_God%C3%A1r" title="Vladimír Godár">Vladimír Godár</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Shore" title="Howard Shore">Howard Shore</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zygmunt_Konieczny" title="Zygmunt Konieczny">Zygmunt Konieczny</a> (2003)</li> <li>Miguel Miranda and José Tobar (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Warbeck" title="Stephen Warbeck">Stephen Warbeck</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Gatlif" title="Tony Gatlif">Tony Gatlif</a> and Delphine Mantoulet (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Andersson" title="Benny Andersson">Benny Andersson</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolib_Shakhidi" title="Tolib Shakhidi">Tolib Shakhidi</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Larson_(musician)" title="Nathan Larson (musician)">Nathan Larson</a> (2009)</li> <li>Hong-jip Kim (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evgueni_Galperine" title="Evgueni Galperine">Evgueni</a> and Sacha Galperine (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Assayas" title="Olivier Assayas">Olivier Assayas</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lim_Giong" title="Lim Giong">Lim Giong</a> (2013)</li> <li>Boris Debackere (2014)</li> <li>Johnnie Burn (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Jewel" title="Johnny Jewel">Johnny Jewel</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Romer" title="Dan Romer">Dan Romer</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_A._Staples" title="Stuart A. Staples">Stuart A. Staples</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mica_Levi" title="Mica Levi">Mica Levi</a> and Lena Esquenazi (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children&#039;s_Music_Album312" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#cedff2;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children%27s_Album" title="Template:Grammy Award for Best Children's Album"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children%27s_Album" title="Template talk:Grammy Award for Best Children's Album"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children%27s_Album" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Grammy Award for Best Children's Album"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children&#039;s_Music_Album312" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children%27s_Music_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album">Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1958−1974</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_Chipmunk_Song_(Christmas_Don%27t_Be_Late)" title="The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)">The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Ross_Bagdasarian" title="Ross Bagdasarian">Ross Bagdasarian Sr.</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf" title="Peter and the Wolf">Peter and the Wolf</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Ustinov" title="Peter Ustinov">Peter Ustinov</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Let%27s_All_Sing_with_The_Chipmunks" title="Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks">Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Ross_Bagdasarian" title="Ross Bagdasarian">Ross Bagdasarian Sr.</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf" title="Peter and the Wolf">Prokofiev: Peter and The Wolf</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Carnival_of_the_Animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnival of the Animals">Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals</a></i>/<i><a href="/wiki/Young_Person%27s_Guide_to_the_Orchestra" title="Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra">Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Bernstein Conducts for Young People</i> – <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mary_Poppins:_Original_Cast_Soundtrack" title="Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack">Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke" title="Dick Van Dyke">Dick Van Dyke</a> & <a href="/wiki/Julie_Andrews" title="Julie Andrews">Julie Andrews</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dr._Seuss" title="Dr. Seuss">Dr. Seuss</a> Presents: "Fox in Sox" and "<a href="/wiki/Green_Eggs_and_Ham" title="Green Eggs and Ham">Green Eggs and Ham</a>"</i> – <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Miller_(actor)" title="Marvin Miller (actor)">Marvin Miller</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran the Zoo" and "Sleep Book"</i> – <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Miller_(actor)" title="Marvin Miller (actor)">Marvin Miller</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas!_(TV_special)" title="How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special)">Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">No Award (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mommy" title="Peter, Paul and Mommy">Peter, Paul and Mommy</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mary" title="Peter, Paul and Mary">Peter, Paul and Mary</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Joan_Ganz_Cooney" title="Joan Ganz Cooney">Joan Cooney</a> & <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Z._Shepard" title="Thomas Z. Shepard">Thomas Z. Shepard</a> (producers) (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby_Talks_to_Kids_About_Drugs" title="Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs">Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Electric_Company" title="The Electric Company">The Electric Company</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> & <a href="/wiki/Rita_Moreno" title="Rita Moreno">Rita Moreno</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street_discography" title="Sesame Street discography">Sesame Street Live!</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Raposo" title="Joe Raposo">Joe Raposo</a> (producer) (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Winnie_the_Pooh_and_Tigger_Too" title="Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too">Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Winchell" title="Paul Winchell">Paul Winchell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sebastian_Cabot_(actor)" title="Sebastian Cabot (actor)">Sebastian Cabot</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Holloway" title="Sterling Holloway">Sterling Holloway</a> (1974)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1975−1992</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i>The Little Prince</i> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Prokofiev</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf" title="Peter and the Wolf">Peter and the Wolf</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Saint-Saëns</a>: "<a href="/wiki/Carnival_of_the_Animals" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnival of the Animals">Carnival of the Animals</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Hermione_Gingold" title="Hermione Gingold">Hermione Gingold</a> & <a href="/wiki/Karl_B%C3%B6hm" title="Karl Böhm">Karl Böhm</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Aren%27t_You_Glad_You%27re_You%3F_(album)" title="Aren't You Glad You're You? (album)">Aren't You Glad You're You</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Cerf_(producer)" title="Christopher Cerf (producer)">Christopher Cerf</a> & Jim Timmens (producers) (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Muppet_Show_(album)" title="The Muppet Show (album)">The Muppet Show</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson" title="Jim Henson">Jim Henson</a> (producer) (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Muppet_Movie_(soundtrack)" title="The Muppet Movie (soundtrack)">The Muppet Movie</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson" title="Jim Henson">Jim Henson</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter)" title="Paul Williams (songwriter)">Paul Williams</a> (producers) (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/In_Harmony_(compilation_albums)" title="In Harmony (compilation albums)">In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/David_Levine" title="David Levine">David Levine</a> & <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Simon" title="Lucy Simon">Lucy Simon</a> (producers) (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street_discography" title="Sesame Street discography">Sesame Country</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson" title="Jim Henson">Jim Henson</a> & Dennis Scott (producers) (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/In_Harmony_(compilation_albums)" title="In Harmony (compilation albums)">In Harmony 2</a></i> – David Levine & <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Simon" title="Lucy Simon">Lucy Simon</a> (producers) (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(album)" title="E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (album)">E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quincy_Jones" title="Quincy Jones">Quincy Jones</a> (producer) (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends" title="Where the Sidewalk Ends">Where the Sidewalk Ends</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Shel_Silverstein" title="Shel Silverstein">Shel Silverstein</a> and Ron Haffkine (producer) (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street_Presents:_Follow_That_Bird" title="Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird">Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson" title="Jim Henson">Jim Henson</a> & <a href="/wiki/Steve_Buckingham_(record_producer)" title="Steve Buckingham (record producer)">Steve Buckingham</a> (producers) (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street_discography" title="Sesame Street discography">The Alphabet</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson" title="Jim Henson">Jim Henson</a>, Geri Van Rees & Kathryn King (producers) (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Just_So_Stories" title="Just So Stories">The Elephant's Child</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin" title="Bobby McFerrin">Bobby McFerrin</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" title="Jack Nicholson">Jack Nicholson</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Pecos_Bill" title="Pecos Bill">Pecos Bill</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a> and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ry Cooder</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Volume 1</i> – Tanya Goodman (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid_(1989_soundtrack)" title="The Little Mermaid (1989 soundtrack)">The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Alan_Menken" title="Alan Menken">Alan Menken</a> & <a href="/wiki/Howard_Ashman" title="Howard Ashman">Howard Ashman</a> (songwriters) (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>A Cappella Kids</i> – Clifford "Barney" Robertson (producer) (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1991_soundtrack)" title="Beauty and the Beast (1991 soundtrack)">Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Alan_Menken" title="Alan Menken">Alan Menken</a> & <a href="/wiki/Howard_Ashman" title="Howard Ashman">Howard Ashman</a> (songwriters) (1992)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2011−present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i>All About Bullies... Big and Small</i> – Gloria Domina, James Cravero, Kevin Mackie, Patrick Robinson & Steve Pullara (producers) (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Can You Canoe?</i> – The Okee Dokee Brothers (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well</i> – <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Gasoi" title="Jennifer Gasoi">Jennifer Gasoi</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Malala" title="I Am Malala">I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World</a></i> – Neela Vaswani (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Home</i> – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Kubart" title="Tim Kubart">Tim Kubart</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Infinity Plus One</i> – <a href="/wiki/Secret_Agent_23_Skidoo" title="Secret Agent 23 Skidoo">Secret Agent 23 Skidoo</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Feel_What_U_Feel" title="Feel What U Feel">Feel What U Feel</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Loeb" title="Lisa Loeb">Lisa Loeb</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>All the Sounds</i> – Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Ageless Songs for the Child Archetype</i> – Jon Samson (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>All the Ladies</i> – <a href="/wiki/Joanie_Leeds" title="Joanie Leeds">Joanie Leeds</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>A Colorful World</i> − <a href="/wiki/Falu" title="Falu">Falu</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>The Movement</i> – Alphabet Rockers (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>We Grow Together Preschool Songs</i> – <a href="/wiki/123_Andr%C3%A9s" title="123 Andrés">123 Andrés</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Brillo, Brillo!</i> – <a href="/wiki/Lucky_Diaz_and_the_Family_Jam_Band" title="Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band">Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band</a> (2024)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" 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