Ry Cooder
Author
Language
English
Description
A Los Angeles Times's and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association's Bestseller! Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-it-yourself culture of cool cats, outsiders, and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine....
Author
Publisher
Nonesuch Records
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The legendary electric guitar players, who were once bandmates with the LA band the Rising Sun, reunite after 57 years. Features Taj Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandonlin, and banjo.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Español
Description
In 1996, Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. His recording featuring the re-discovered talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians sold millions and earned a Grammy Award. Cooder now returns to Cuba with film maker Wim Wenders to reveal the stories, personalities, and music of the performers who collaborated on that recording. Includes live performances in Amsterdam and at Carnegie Hall.
6) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother.
7) Crossroads
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with unlocking the mysteries of the blues, Eugene Martone, a gifted young guitarist, finds cantankerous Willie Brown, a master of the blues harmonica, and frees him from prison. The unlikely duo hoboes from New York to Mississippi as Martone searches for fame and Brown tries to break a contract he signed years ago with the devil.