Tag: Ry Cooder
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Episode 2366: The Ry Cooder Experience: Part Seven, Late Career Solo Albums and Collaborations
Kurt Gallagher joins Patrick to tell the story of Ry Cooder, one of the most influential and incredible musical minds of the past 50 years. It’s the final episode of the series and Kurt and Patrick cover Ry’s striking late-period work, collaborations and his venture into short stories.
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Episode 2365: The Ry Cooder Experience: Part Six: Buena Vista Social Club
Kurt Gallagher joins Patrick to tell the story of Ry Cooder, one of the most influential and incredible musical minds of the past 50 years. In this episode, Kurt tells the story of the Buena Vista Social Club, an album that was the end result of a trip to Cuba to record an entirely different project. It ended up becoming a worldwide phenomenon, funding the rest of Ry’s career.
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Episode 2363: The Ry Cooder Experience: Part Four, Soundtracks
Kurt Gallagher joins Patrick to tell the story of Ry Cooder, one of the most influential and incredible musical minds of the past 50 years. Part four examines Ry’s work in the 1980s, when scoring films and creating soundtracks were his main musical focus.
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Episode 2362: The Ry Cooder Experience: Part Three, Solo Albums in the 1970s
Kurt Gallagher joins Patrick to tell the story of Ry Cooder, one of the most influential and incredible musical minds of the past 50 years. Part three explores the solo material Ry released in the 1970s and the artistic freedom (and support) he was given by Warner Bros and Reprise Records.
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Episode 2361: The Ry Cooder Experience: Part Two, Session Man
Kurt Gallagher joins Patrick to tell the story of Ry Cooder, one of the most influential and incredible musical minds of the past 50 years. In the second installment, Ry branches out into session work and dabbles briefly with higher education before deciding his career path – musician – has already been laid out for him.
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Episode 2360: The Ry Cooder Experience: Part One, The Early Years
Kurt Gallagher joins Patrick to tell the story of Ry Cooder, one of the most influential and incredible musical minds of the past 50 years. In part one, Ry suffers a tragic accident that changes the course of his life, but ends up playing with Bill Monroe, founding a band that might have been bigger than the Byrds and playing with Captain Beefheart.
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Episode 1412: The Great Music Experience with Tim Hoffman: Part 1
Podcast patron Tim Hoffman talks with Jim and Patrick about a truly once-in-a-lifetime concert he attended in 1994.
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Episode 74: Jasper Colt goes to Cuba
Our friend Jasper Colt took a trip to Havana. He brought back some cigars (natch) to enjoy on the back deck, as well as a new appreciation for Cuban music.







