His enthusiasm for world music traditions and preservation and collaborative efforts is comparable to that of guitarist Ry Cooder.

It is also used in rock, by bands and artists such as Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Ry Cooder, Chris Rea, Bonnie Raitt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, Eagles, ZZ Top, Whitesnake and AC / DC.

The term Tex-Mex is also used in American rock and roll for Tejano-influenced performers such as the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados ( featuring Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm ); Los Super Seven ; Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ; Los Lobos and Latin Playboys ; Sunny and the Sunliners ; Louie and the Lovers ; The Champs ; Ry Cooder ; Calexico ; Cecilia with Viva Texas ; The Mars Volta ; Los Lonely Boys ; and Selena y Los Dinos.

Ryland Peter " Ry " Cooder ( born March 15, 1947 ) is an American guitarist, singer and composer.

Cooder is credited on Van Morrison's 1979 album, Into the Music, for slide guitar on the song " Full Force Gale ".

On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by East L. A. legends like Chicano music patriarch Lalo Guerrero, Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti, Thee Midniters front man Little Willie G, and Ersi Arvizu, of The Sisters and El Chicano.

The song " Diaraby ", which Cooder recorded with Ali Farka Touré, is used as the theme to The World's Geo Quiz.

Hull is mentioned by name in the 1937 calypso song " FDR in Trinidad " popularized by Attila the Hun, and also by Ry Cooder on his 1972 album Into the Purple Valley.

Her son Ry is named after musician Ry Cooder, who guests on the song " Rough Edges " from her Barking at Airplanes album.

* In 1979, the first digitally recorded album of popular music Bop ' Til You Drop by guitarist Ry Cooder is released by Warner Bros. Records.

" The same is true of the track " Boomer's Story ," covered by the Ramblers -- Cooder credits it as " traditional ," but the song was written by Carson Robison and first recorded by him in 1929 under the title " The Railroad Boomer.

The song is also performed in the Long Riders ( 1980 ), with music produced by Cooder.

The album is also notable for the involvement of a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who plays guitar and wrote some of the arrangements.

The credits then roll, with each skater performing a trick in slow motion, with " Cancion mixteca " by Ry Cooder playing and with "( birthdate-1991 )" under the name of each skater ( except for Rudy Johnson which the number 1-900-810-3611 is displayed ).

It is for his Grammy winning album A Meeting by the River with Ry Cooder and other fusion and pan-cultural collaborations with Western artists like Taj Mahal, Béla Fleck and Jerry Douglas, that Bhatt is best known, although exposure such as an appearance on the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival, which was organized by Eric Clapton, does allow for this side of his playing to reach a larger audience.

Cooder Graw is somewhat of an anomaly in the music industry, in that its members ' ages at its inception ranged from late-30s to early-50s.

Home at the Golden Light is the first album by self-described " loud country " band Cooder Graw.

Cooder Graw is the self-titled second album by self-described " loud country " band Cooder Graw.

Segundo is a live album by self-described " loud country " band Cooder Graw.

The film is supported by an atmospheric soundtrack by longstanding Hill collaborator Ry Cooder.

While musicologists such as George Mitchell, Peter B. Lowry and Tim Duffy collected recordings by the aging community of Piedmont blues players, younger musicians such as Roy Book Binder, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Geremia, Keb Mo ', Michael Roach, Samuel James, Eric Bibb, Ry Cooder, David Bromberg and Guy Davis have carried on the Piedmont tradition, often having " studied " under some of the old Piedmont masters.

In the late 1990s Cooder played a significant role in the increased appreciation of traditional Cuban music, due to his collaboration as producer of the Buena Vista Social Club ( 1997 ) recording, which became a worldwide hit and revived the careers of some of the greatest surviving exponents of 20th century Cuban music.

In late 2009, Cooder toured Japan, New Zealand and Australia with Nick Lowe, performing some of Lowe's songs and a selection of Cooder's own material, mainly from the 1970s.

In the 1990s, nearly 50 years after the club was closed, it inspired a recording made by Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans who had performed at the club during the height of its popularity.

Ry Cooder played the slide on the debut Little Feat album after George badly injured his hand while working on a powered model airplane, although George re-recorded some of his material.

* Jamming With Edward ( jam session with Ry Cooder and some members of The Rolling Stones ( recorded 1969, released 1972 )

Cooder based this soundtrack and title song " Paris, Texas " on Blind Willie Johnson's " Dark Was the Night ( Cold Was the Ground )", which he described as " The most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music.

In the early 1990s Cooder collaborated on two world music " 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.

The disc was also released as a deluxe edition with stories written by Cooder to accompany the music.

* Music by Ry Cooder ( 1995 ) ( two-disc set of film music )

In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder had been invited to Havana by British world music producer Nick Gold of World Circuit Records to record a session where two African High-life musicians from Mali were to collaborate with Cuban musicians.

Cooder and Gold changed their plans and decided to record an album of Cuban son music with local musicians.

Crossing paths with fellow enthusiasts like Ry Cooder, Herb Pedersen and Chris Hillman reinforced the strength of the music he had learned from his father.

Cooder Graw was a self-described " loud country " ( country music / alternative country ) band from Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas.

While Martindale, Turner, and Baker returned to careers outside of music, February 27, 2012 Cooder Graw announced a reunion tour would kick off April 28, 2012 at the Larry Joe Taylor Music Fest with more dates to follow.

He, besides releasing music in his own name, worked with Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and Primal Scream.

Gary ' Magic ' Marker ( the " Magic " added by Beefheart ) was involved in early session work for this release, and his involvement with Rising Sons was also instrumental in acquiring the skills of Cooder, upon an unfulfilled suggestion that Marker might produce the album.

Musicians of note in this genre include Collegium Vocale Köln ( who first began using this technique in 1968 ), Michael Vetter, David Hykes, Jim Cole, Ry Cooder, Paul Pena ( mixing the traditional Tuvan style with that of American Blues ), Steve Sklar and Kiva ( specializing in jazz / world beat genres and composing for overtone choirs ).

In 2004, Ronstadt wrote the Foreword Introduction to the book titled The NPR Curious Listener's Guide To American Folk Music, and in 2005 she wrote the Introduction to the book titled Classic Ferrington Guitars, about guitar-maker and luthier Danny Ferrington and his custom guitars that he created for Ronstadt and other musicians such as Elvis Costello, Ry Cooder, and Kurt Cobain.

Vocalist / guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Pérez met at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, California, and bonded over their mutual affinity for obscure musical acts such as Fairport Convention, Randy Newman and Ry Cooder.

** Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure for Talking Timbuktu

** Ry Cooder for Buena Vista Social Club

Cooder also played slide guitar for the 1970 film soundtrack Performance, which contained Jagger's first solo single, " Memo from Turner ".

Cooder also worked with Tuvan throat singers for the score to the 1993 film Geronimo: An American Legend.

Cooder produced and performed on an album for Mavis Staples entitled We'll Never Turn Back, which was released on April 24, 2007.

** V. M. Bhatt & Ry Cooder for A Meeting by the River

** Ry Cooder ( producer & composer ), Mark Sottnick ( producer ) & Robin Williams for Pecos Bill

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band was also invited to appear but, according to the liner notes for the CD reissue of their album Safe As Milk, the band turned the offer down at the insistence of guitarist Ry Cooder, who felt the group was not ready.

** Jerry Boys ( engineer / mixer ), Ry Cooder ( producer ) & Ibrahim Ferrer for Buenos Hermanos

Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán for Mambo Sinuendo

Within three days of the project's birth, Cooder, Gold and de Marcos had organized a large group of performers and arranged for recording sessions to commence at Havana's EGREM Studios, formerly owned by RCA records, where the equipment and atmosphere had remained unchanged since the 1950s.

* Ry Cooder recorded a version for his 1976 album Chicken Skin Music

When " Willin '" was recorded for the Little Feat album, George had hurt his hand in an accident with a model airplane, so Ry Cooder sat in and played the song's slide part.

Under a more English name, Sarah Beth, she appeared on several movie soundtracks with covers including " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry " ( originally by Hank Williams ) for the movie Vrouwen Willen Trouwen ( Women Want To Marry ) and a duet with Frankie Miller, " Why Don't You Try Me ", ( originally by Ry Cooder ) for the movie Ad Fundum.

Every episode ends with McLean's signature signoff, " I'm Stuart McLean, so long for now " and followed by the show's folksy guitar theme song, " Happy Meeting In Glory " ( as performed by Ry Cooder ).

In 2005, Guerrero was one of several Chicano musicians who collaborated with Ry Cooder on Cooder's " Chavez Ravine " album, for which he provided vocals on three songs (" Corrido de Boxeo ", " Los Chucos Suaves ", and " Barrio Viejo ") which helped bring him, at the twilight of his life, to the attention of a wider Anglo audience.