Lets play… I spy w my little ears Ry Cooder

One more: With the great Clarence Gatemouth Brown.

 

With Hans Theessink and Terry Evans, from Delta Time.

 

Mandolin on 'Petaluma' by Norman Greenbaum'

 

Ali Farka Touré, “Talking Timbuktu” (1994)

 

Amazing number and variety of sessions.

 

Almost forgot about his track on T Bone Burnett's Proof Through The Night which features a lot of superb guests including Pete Townshend and Mick Ronson.

 

'Hard Workin' Man' by Jack Nitzsche, featuring Captain Beefheart

 

With the incredible Flaco Jimenez.

 

And, surprisingly, with the Doobie Brothers.

 

Taj Mahal - The Celebrated Walkin' Blues

Ry Cooder is playing mandolin on this track from Taj Mahal's self-titled 1968 debut album.
He is featured on rhythm guitar on 4 other tracks on this album.

 

This was mentioned before. Ry with Manuel Galban.

 

Wow.... just wow

 

I know and appreciate what you're saying @bobc but Ry's vocals on his latest album 'The Prodigal Son' are some of his best in years.

 

With Aaron Neville, on the John Hiatt song, "It Feels Like Rain."

 

Check out:

Nancy Sinatra - Hook And Ladder featuring Ry Cooder on Mandolin.

 

With Taj Mahal, in their short-lived band, Rising Sons.

 

This is great and you should seek out the entire video...

 

The vinyl LP of this one is to die for.

 

One of his many collaborations with the late Terry Evans.

 

Mark LeVine - Better Dad Than Dead

From Mark LeVine's obscure singer-songwriter album "Pilgrim's Progress", released in 1968.
Ry Cooder is playing acoustic bottleneck guitar on this track.
He is featured on acoustic guitar, mandolin and electric bottleneck guitar on some other tracks of this album.

 

One of the more unusual albums in my collection w/ Ry Cooder is by a band called Fusion, consisting of Rick Luther on clavinet, vibes, piano and drums, Harvey Lane on saxes, clarinet and flute, Bill Wolff on guitars and bass, Richard Matzkin on drums and Gary Marker on basses and guitar. Gary Marker is the only name I'm familiar with, having been a member of the Rising Sons and associated with Beefheart circa Safe As Milk. It's a bit of a schizophrenic album, one side being a mellow jazz/rock affair and the other being a blues/rock boogie thang. Ry is featured on the blues rock side on bottleneck and rhythm guitar. The album cover is by Eve Babitz, who did the cover art for Buffalo Springfield Again, and, I believe, Avalanche by Eric Andersen. I'm not sure when the album was released, but I'd guess 1969 or 1970.

 

I forgot to mention Neil Young's first solo album, the first record by Crazy Horse, and The Haden Triplets cd, which Ry produced and plays on. If you don't know the Haden Triplets, they are the daughters of the late great jazz bassist Charlie Haden, and the cd is a Roots/Americana gem,with beautiful harmony vocals. Highly recommended.