No matter the genre, tribute albums tend toward the reverent, as if the musicians and singers doing the saluting don’t want to appear even remotely disrespectful toward their subjects. Thankfully, ...

Multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder is a revered curator of great folk and roots music from around the world, a Grammy winner, a soundtrack writer, producer, and a brilliant bottleneck slide guitar player ...

Slide guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder and blues musician Taj Mahal started their careers together. They formed the Rising Sons and signed to Columbia in 1965 but disbanded a year later, and the group’s sole ...