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Ry Cooder

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...