Pitchfork — Photo by Spencer Tweedy In her 60-year career, gospel/soul legend Mavis Staples has worked with countless big names, including Bob Dylan, Prince, Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, the Band, and Booker T. & the MG's. Now she can add another name to tha... more info

Mercury News, California — The R&B star, who died in a plane crash a year later at age 26, represented a different school of soul music than the Motown sound that had already been experienced on the Sunset Strip. Ry Cooder, a member of the band opening for Redding, recalls the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sir Charlie Palmer said... Outburst – The Wailers Peel Session – Tortoise 31.08.96 http://sircharliepalmer.blogspot.com music499 said... REM - Reveal Ramones - Subterranean Jungle http://music499.blogspot.com Mister Moods said... BR... more info

All About Jazz — New York, N.Y. 00 When Barry Cleveland isn't talking guitar with people like Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Ry Cooder, Tony Iommi, and John Frusciante, he's busy recording globally acclaimed progressive rock and world fusion music. For more than 25 years,... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — NEW YORK: The Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder, "San Patricio" (Hear Music) "Riverdance" visits the Rio Grande on "San Patricio," an unlikely but likable merger of music from Ireland and Mexico. more info

Guardian Music — (Fantasy/Concord)The Chieftains have enjoyed an extraordinary career for the best part of five decades, partly because of adventurous, high-profile projects like this. They have matched their rousing Irish traditional playing with styles from across... more info

All About Jazz — Bobby Espinosa, played keyboard for El Chicano. The East L.A. band had top-40 hits in the 1970s with "Viva Tirado" and "Tell Her She's Lovely." "El Chicano hit a groove that defined 'Latin soul' on the West Coast," said guitarist and producer Ry Cood... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offStanley Moon Camden Road Moon is an unsigned troubadour who writes nagging urban folk songs with an impressive line in wry, observational lyrics. Anyone who's walked through... more info

Undercover, Australia — When Ry Cooder visited Cuba in the 1990`s he discovered a sound that had been around for most of the century in Havana and introduced it to the world. That was the sound of the Buena Vista Social Club. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Irish band, with guests including Ry Cooder, Linda Ronstadt, Los Tigres del Norte and more, tells the story of Irish soldiers who fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American War. ... more info