Renowned as being one of the world's greatest slide guitarists, Ry Cooder is
famed for his subtly evocative movie soundtracks and has played a key role in
bringing specialist music to wider audiences, most famously the hugely
successful 'Buena Vista Social Club' project in 1997 which catapulted a proud
selection of long-forgotten Cuban musicians to international fame.
Cooder has always gone against the grain and when all his contemporaries were
pursuing rock careers in the early 1960s, he sought inspiration from obscure
blues artists. In his early days he played with Captain B...