Blues, R’n’B, soul, early jazz, Tex-Mex, calypso, gospel, Hawaiian, country – Cooder ... albums from guitar king’s first golden age… However you define this thing called Americana, Ry ...

Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know); Why Don't You Try Me; Boomer's Story; Lord Tell Me Why; Do Re Mi; School Is Out; Dark End of the Street; El Corrido de Jesse James"; Wooly Bully; Volver ...

Ry Cooder is not a religious man – on the contrary, he casts a cold eye on its organised form – but he has just made an album stuffed with gospel music and hymns, all from the best part ...