{"id":3359,"date":"2012-04-04T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2012-04-04T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:31:41","slug":"roots-and-blues-guitarist-ry-cooder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/roots-and-blues-guitarist-ry-cooder\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots And Blues Guitarist, Ry Cooder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famous Roots and slide guitarist, Ry Cooder, has been featured as number 8 on Rolling Stone's 2003 "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time." Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Few guitarists have had as much success in as many different music styles as Ry Cooder.\u00a0 From folk to gospel, and soul to Tex-Mex, Cooder has been featured as one of the great guitarists of all time according to the magazine Rolling Stone<\/em>.\u00a0 Cooder is known best for his slide guitar playing, and has been able to apply it in recording sessions with some of the biggest names in music history including Taj Mahal, Randy Newman, The Rolling Stones, Little Feat, Van Morrison, the Buena Vista Social Club, and many others.\u00a0 Ry Cooder has built a successful music career as a guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy a few videos that feature the great Ry Cooder on stage with special guests!<\/p>\n

I’d like to start off with a solo performance from Ry Cooder of the song, “Vigilante Man.”\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4KmbUCwkyE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The next video features another great slide guitar performance by Ry Cooder.\u00a0 This time, it’s only the audio, but the performance comes from the soundtrack for the movie, “Crossroads.”\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JIwYGZlBw9Y&feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The last video I will leave you with features Ry Cooder on slide guitar with a very special guest, John Lee Hooker.\u00a0 This is about as bluesy as it gets.\u00a0 Enjoy the video performance at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jZWflGIjDss&feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now these are just a few of Ry Cooder’s blues performances; there are many other videos featuring a variety of performances from him.\u00a0 Cooder can be seen all over YouTube performing in many different styles of music.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed the post because I had a great time making it for you.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few guitarists have had as much success in as many different music styles as Ry Cooder.\u00a0 From folk to gospel, and soul to Tex-Mex, Cooder has been featured as one of the great guitarists of all time according to the magazine Rolling Stone.\u00a0 Cooder is known best for his slide guitar playing, and has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}