The first release on Cooder’s own label, Perro Verde (Green Dog), Mambo Sinuendo is a collaboration between him and Galbán. The album features a swinging sextet of two electric guitars, two drum sets, ...

Ry Cooder's name has become synonymous with Cuban music since he produced the hit CD Buena Vista Social Club. The music from that groundbreaking collection of songs featured legends of a Cuban music ...

This delightful, mostly instrumental album by a pair of Buena Vista Social Club alumni proves you don’t have to be Jimmy Page or have fingers that move a million miles an hour to be a guitar hero.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Continuing the Cuban music odyssey he began to great acclaim on Buena Vista Social ...

Ry Cooder, the man behind the Buena Vista Social Club, doesn't think he'll be going back to Cuba again anytime soon. "My little Bill Clinton permission, license, variance to the embargo is finished, ...

Just when you thought the Cuba nostalgia boom had finally come to an end, Ry Cooder proves that he can still produce great new music with the veterans whom he helped to rediscover with the Buena Vista ...

Think music is one of the more apolitical arts? Try telling that to Ry Cooder. Next week, Cooder will release Mambo Sinuendo, an album of seductively menacing Cuban guitar music he recorded with ...

Ry Cooder's name has become synonymous with Cuban music since he produced the hit CD Buena Vista Social Club. The music from that groundbreaking collection of songs featured legends of a Cuban music ...

'Mambo Sinuendo" finds Ry Cooder in Cuba again, this time with Buena Vista guitarist Manuel Galban at center stage. After a string of extremely satisfying albums with the Buena Vista crew, this album ...

Buena Vista Social Club production overseer Ry Cooder lends his clout to another relatively unsung Cuban master: guitarist Maneul Galbán, the formidable string-bender for the '60s doo-wop group Los… ...