Ry Cooder
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Ryland Peter Cooder is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in tr
Cooder performing in June 2009
Cooder playing the electric bouzouki in August 2015
Into the Purple Valley
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Into the Purple Valley is the second studio album by roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released in 1972.
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…imprint. Cooder explored bygone musical genres and found old-time recordings which he then personalized and updated. Thus, on his breakthrough album, Into the Purple Valley, he chose unusual instrumentations and arrangements of blues, gospel, calypso, and country songs (giving a tempo change to the cowboy ballad "Billy the…
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