With 'The Prodigal Son,' Ry Cooder Puts His Own Touch On Gospel Music
In his first solo album in six years, Cooder injects social satire into his refurbished work of traditional American gospel music.
Ry Cooder has been described as a singer-songwriter, slide guitar hero, session musician to so many other artists, producer, musicologist and historian, a man beholden to no single style, a champion of Cuban and international roots music, and a composer of film soundtracks.
Yet, now a half-century into his prolific career, Cooder continues to carve out new trades for himself.
Six years since he revived protest music with, Cooder has a new solo album out. features a mix of original compositions as well as some beautiful obscurities unearthed from the American country, gospel and blues catalogs.
