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Ry Cooder Guest Appearances - Albums

Year Artist – Album – Ry featured tracks (if not featured throughout)

1966 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Midnight Ride – Get It On
1966 Rising Sons - Rising Sons
1967 Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
1967 Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal – Leaving Trunk, Statesboro Blues, Everybody's Got To Change Sometime, EZ Rider, The Celebrated Walkin' Blues
1967 Ceyleib People - Tanyet
1968 Anders & Poncia - The Anders & Poncia Album - Smokey Joe's Cafe
1968 Dale Hawkins - LA, Memphis & Tyler, Texas - LA, Memphis & Tyler, Texas, Heavy On My Mind, Joe, Hound Dog, Back Street
1968 John Braden - John Braden - What A Friend We Have In Jesus, Carriage House Song
1968 Mark Levine - Pilgrim's Progress - Going To The Country, Dr.Grossman, The Love Song, Richard Lee, Texas Style, Sure I Can Write, Better Dad Than Dead, Periwinkle Blue
1968 Pat Boone - Departure - Bad News, Break My Mind, Friends
1968 Monkees - Head - As We Go Along
1968 Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet - No Expectations (*), Factory Girl (*)
(* While recording Beggars Banquet, the Stones used a number of guest musicians, including Ry, then all but unknown to the public, and Dave Mason of Traffic. Both of them, as well as Brian Jones, recorded slide-guitar parts for "No Expectations," and nobody involved seems very clear on whose recording was used on the released version. And some sources state that the mandolin on Factory Girl is in fact a mellotron, played by Dave Mason.)
1969 Arlo Guthrie - Running Down The Road - Every Hand In The Land, Wheel Of Fortune, Stealin', Living In The Country
1969 Fusion - Border Town - Struttin' Down Main Street, Goin' Up To Clarksdale, Somebody's Callin' My Name, One More Hand, Another Man, What Magic?, Cajun Two-Step
1969 Gentle Soul - Gentle Soul
1969 Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran - Raider (Frank Zappa suggested this album. It was made with the help of a bunch of musical friends, said to include Ry and David Lindley - both of whom are credited, by some, to have contributed mandolin [Ry] and bowed banjo [Dave] to this track)
1969 Harper's Bizarre - Harpers Bizarre 4 - Soft Soundin' Music, Knock On Wood
1969 Neil Young - Neil Young (Ry is not credited with anything other than production on three tracks)
1969 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Hard 'n' Heavy - Ride On My Shoulder, Hard And Heavy 5 string Soul Banjo, Where You Goin' Girl
1969 Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits - One Way Ticket Home
1969 Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - Love In Vain
1969 Ron Elliott - The Candlestickmaker - Deep River Runs Blue
1969 Them - Them - Nobody Cares (Ry is not credited, but rumour has it that he and Jack Nitzsche [who were doing stuff in an adjacent studio] popped in for a listen and very possibly took part. A careful listen suggests that if Ry does play on any track, then that track is Nobody Cares - which carries some distinctive slide.)
1969 GTO's - Permanent Damage - I Have A Paintbrush In My Hand To Color A Triangle (Again, Ry is not credited. But he's not the only one [Jeff Beck isn't credited, either]. The album was produced by Frank Zappa. Old mates Lowell George and Roy Estrada [later of Little Feat] were involved, as were Nicky Hopkins [Jamming With Edward] and Russ Titleman [Ry's brother-in-law] - so there's a distinct possibility that Ry was there. I Have A Paintbrush carries that distinctive slide. It has to be Ry..... In fact, Lowell George, who wrote, arranged and produced I Have A Paintbrush (and Do Me In Once), later said of the album: "We did a GTO's session once which was real fun - even if the production wasn't top drawer, because there were no real singers in the GTO's, they were performers rather than singers - but that was the original Little Feat on those songs: Russ Titleman on guitar, Ry Cooder and me, and I go back to those two cuts we did and I gasp and cringe. They were hell on earth.")
1970 Alex Richman - Salty - Nobody's Calling, Go Back Upstairs
1970 Arlo Guthrie - Washington County - Fence Post Blues, Washington County, I Could Be Singing
1970 Eve - Take It And Smile - Anyone Who Had A Heart, You Go Your Way
1970 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind - Me And Bobby McGee, Cobwebs & Dust
1970 Little Feat - Little Feat - Willin', Forty Four Blues/ How Many More Years
1970 Longbranch Pennywhistle - Longbranch Pennywhistle - Don't Talk Now
1970 Marc Benno - Marc Benno - Teach It To The Children, Hard Road
1970 Randy Newman - 12 Songs - Let's Burn Down The Cornfield, Mama Told Me Not To Come, Suzanne, Lucinda
1970 Ron Nagle - Bad Rice - 61 Clay, Capricorn Queen
1970 Scott McKenzie - Stained Glass Morning - Look In The Mirror, Crazy Man
1971 Buffy Sainte-Marie - She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina - Sweet September Morning, She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina, Helpless
1971 Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse - I Don't Want To Talk About It, Dirty, Dirty, Crow Jane Lady
1971 David Blue - Stories - Another One Like Me, The Blues (All Night Long)
1971 Don Everly - Don Everly
1971 Judy Collins - Living - Four Strong Winds, Song For Judith (Open The Door), Easy Times, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
1971 Possum - Possum - Mr Money
1971 Rita Coolidge - Rita Coolidge - Born Under A Bad Sign, Mud Island
1971 Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers - Sister Morphine
1972 Steve Young - Seven Bridges Road - Down In The Flood (Album re-released by Rounder in 1981. "Seven Bridges Road: Complete Recordings", released by Beatball in 2005, includes The White Trash Song [LA Version] a.k.a. Sea Rock City which also features Ry.)
1972 Arlo Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby - Anytime, Lightning Bar Blues, Shackles and Chains, Ukulele Lady, When The Ship Comes In, Days Are Short
1972 Everly Brothers - Stories We Could Tell - Green River, Mandolin Wind, Del Rio Dan
1972 Gordon Lightfoot - Don Quixote - Alberta Bound
1972 Norman Greenbaum - Petaluma - Grade A Barn, Petaluma, The Day The Well Went Dry, New Dead Shrimp Blues
1972 Randy Newman - Sail Away - Last Night I Had A Dream, You Can Leave Your Hat On
1972 Rolling Stones - Jamming With Edward (Recorded during the Let It Bleed sessions of 1969 [by Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts] while waiting for Keith Richards to turn up)
1973 Arlo Guthrie - Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys - Miss The Mississippi & You, Gates Of Eden, Last Train, Sailor's Bonnett, Cooper's Lament
1973 Billy Mernit - Special Delivery - Mad Love
1973 Brenda Patterson - Brenda Patterson - Dance With Me Henry, Jesus On The Mainline, End Of The Road, In My Girlish Days
1973 Claudia Lennear - Phew - It Ain't Easy, Sing With The Children, Sister Angela, Not At All, Casey Jones
1973 Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur - Any Old Time
1973 Mike Seeger - The Second Annual Farewell Reunion - The Train That Carried My Girl From Home
1973 Rod Taylor - Rod Taylor - Double Life, Sweet Inspiration, Lost Iron Man, Last Song
1974 Arlo Guthrie - Arlo Guthrie - Children Of Abraham, Bling Blang
1974 John Sebastian - Tarzana Kid - Wild About My Lovin'
1974 Randy Newman - Good Old Boys - Back On My Feet Again
1974 Terry Melcher - Terry Melcher
1975 Doobie Brothers - Stampede - Rainy Day Crossroad Blues
1975 Johnny Cash - John R. Cash - Smokey Factory Blues
1975 The Rolling Stones - Metamorphosis - Downtown Suzie (Recorded in 1969 under the title "Sweet Lyle Lucie". It features Ry on open G tuned guitar - the first Rolling Stones track recorded in open G-tuning.)
1975 Gabby Pahinui Band - The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band - Vol 1 - Aloha Ka Manini, Ku'u Pua Lei Mokihana, Moanl Ke'ala, Moonlight Lady
1977 Larry Groce - Please Take Me Back - Tuckertown Fair, Please Take Me Back
1977 Randy Newman - Little Criminals - Kathleen
1977 Gabby Pahinui Band - The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band - Vol 2 - Po Mahina, Pua Tubarose, Makapu'u Beach, Pua Kukui, Kilakila 'O Moanalua
1978 Lenny Carlson - Search For The Floor - Danny Boy (Londonderry Aire), Mood Indigo, Zip-Ah-Dee-Doo-Dah
1978 Rodney Crowell - Ain't Living Long Like This - Elvira
1979 Memphis Development Foundation - Beale Street Saturday Night - Big Fat Mama / Liquor Store, "Mr. Handy Told Me 50 Years Ago..."
1979 Van Morrison - Into The Music - Full Force Gale
1980 Shoukichi Kina & Champloose - Blood Line (Japan Only) - Jing Jing, Hana No Kajimaya, Nirai Kanai, Subete No Hito No Kokoro Ni Hanna O
1980 Rita Coolidge - Greatest Hits - Born Under A Bad Sign
1981 Little Feat - Hoy Hoy - Forty-Four Blues
1982 Peter Moon Band - Cane Fire - Hanohano Hanalei/ Ka Ua Loku
1983 Eric Clapton - Money & Cigarettes - Everybody Oughta Make A Change, The Shape You're In, Ain't Going Down, I've Got A Rock And Roll Heart, Man Overboard, Crosscut Saw, Slow Down Linda, Crazy Country Hop
1983 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks - Up And Downs
1983 T-Bone Burnett - Proof Through The Night - When the Night Falls
1984 Steve Douglas - King Cobra - Let It Be Me
1984 Textones - Midnight Mission - Number One Is To Survive, Clean Cut Kid (The 2001 CD release includes remixes of both tracks "featuring some heretofore unheard Ry Cooder slide guitar tracks")
1985 Kim Carnes - Barking At Airplanes - Rough Edges
1985 John Mellencamp - Scarecrow - The Kind Of Fella I Am
1986 Nancy Sinatra - Boots - Hook And Ladder
1987 Duane Eddy - His Twangy Guitar, And The Rebels - Blue City, Los Compañeros
1987 Emmy Lou Harris, Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt - The Trio - To Know Him Is To Love Him
1987 John Hiatt - Bring The Family
1987 Marianne Faithfull - Greatest Hits - Something Better, Sister Morphine
1987 Marianne Faithfull - The Very Best Of Marianne Faithfull - as above
1988 Bobby King / Terry Evans - Live And Let Live!
1988 Doug Legacy And The Legends Of The West - Hey You! - Christmas In Prison
1988 James Luther Dickinson - Down Home (Delta Experimental Projects Compilation, Volume 1, The Blues) - Holy Spirit, Blind Man In The Tear Gas
1989 Flaco Jimenez - Flaco's Amigos - Jennette, Poquita Fe, Atotonilco, La Feria Polka
1989 Peter Case - The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo Traditionalist Guitar - Entella Hotel
1989 Syd Straw - Surprise - Hard Times
1990 Bobby King / Terry Evans - Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves
1990 Doug Legacy with the Zydeco Party Band - King Cake Party - King Cake, Crime Don't Pay
1990 Nick Lowe - Party Of One - (I Want To Build A) Jumbo Ark, Gai-Gin Man, Rocky Road, Refrigerator White, Rocket Coast
1990 Rita Coolidge - Fire Me Back - Tattler
1990 Nancy Sinatra - The Hit Years - Hook And Ladder (see Boots 1986)
1990 Van Morrison - The Best of Van Morrison - Full Force Gale (see Into The Music 1979)
1991 Aaron Neville - Warm Your Heart - It Feels Like Rain, I Bid You Goodnight
1991 John Lee Hooker - Mr Lucky - This Is Hip
1992 Flaco Jimenez - Partners - The Girls from Texas
1992 Little Village - Little Village
1992 Pahinui Brothers - Pahinui Brothers - Isa Lei, Jealous Guy, My Old Friend The Blues, Waimanalo Blues (Nanakuli Blues), Panini Pua Kea, Come And Go With Me
1992 Pops Staples - Peace To The Neighborhood - Down in Mississippi, I Shall Not Be Moved
1992 Shoukichi Kina - Introduction - Jing Jing, Nirai Kanai, Subete No Hito No Kokoro Ni Hana O (see Bloodline 1980)
1992 Taj Mahal - Taj's Blues (compilation) - Leaving Trunk, Statesboro Blues, Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (see Taj Mahal 1967)
1993 Duane Eddy - Twang Thang - Roadhouse Boogie, Zephyr Cove, Road Race
1993 V.M.Bhatt, Ry Cooder & - A Meeting By The River
1993 Kim Carnes - Gypsy Honeymoon - The Best of Kim Carnes - Rough Edges (see Barking At Airplanes 1985)
1993 Gabby Pahinui Band - Best of the Gabby Band 1972 - 1977 - Wahine U'i, Ku'u Pua Lei Mokihana, Aloha Ka Manini, Moonlight Lady (see Gabby Band Vol 1 1975)
1994 Terry Evans - Blues For Thought
1994 Ali Farka Touré - Talking Timbuktu - Bonda, Soukora, Gomni, Amandrai, Lasidan, Keito, Ai Du, Diaraby
1994 Nenes - KOZA Dabasa - Tu-ne, Shima-Zima Kaisya
1994 Pops Staples - Father Father - Jesus Is Going To Make Up (My Dying Bed), Downward Road
1994 Shoukichi Kina - Peppermint Tea House (see Introduction 1992)
1994 The Tractors - The Tractors - Blue Collar Rock
1995 A.J. Croce - That's Me In The Bar - Sign on the Line, Music Box, Callin' Home, Pass Me By
1995 Carla Olson - Wave of the Hand - Clean Cut Kid (see Textones - Midnight Mission 1984)
1995 Chieftains - The Long Black Veil - The Foggy Dew, Coast of Malabar, Dunmore Lassies, He Moved Through The Fair
1995 Cooder / Lindley Family - Live At The Vienna Opera House
1995 Randy Newman - Faust - Life Has Been Good To Me, Happy Ending
1995 Terry Evans - Puttin' It Down - Money In Your Pocket, Too Many Ups And Downs, Walking In The Same Tracks, Down In Mississippi, In This Day And Time, Rooftop TomCat, Nasty Doll, Blues No More
1996 Carlos Nunez - Brotherhood of Stars - Two Shores, Black Shadow
1996 Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Long Way Home - Dockside Boogie, I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
1996 Everly Brothers - Stories We Could Tell - The RCA Recordings (see Stories We Could Tell 1972)
1996 Jackson Browne - Looking East - Baby How Long
1996 Texas Tornadoes - 4 Aces - The Gardens
1996 Chieftains - Santiago - Santiago de Cuba, Galleguita / Tutankhamen
1996 Flaco Jimenez - The Best of Flaco Jiminez - Poquita Fe (see Flaco's Amigos 1989)
1997 Afro Cuban All Stars - A toda Cuba le gusta - Alto Songo
1997 Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
1997 Harpers Bizarre - The Best of Harpers Bizarre - Knock On Wood (see Harpers Bizarre 4 1969)
1997 Terry Evans - Come To The River
1998 John Lee Hooker - The Best of Friends - This Is Hip, Big Legs Tight Skirt
1998 Randy Newman - Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman - Let's Burn Down The Cornfield, Mama Told Me Not To Come, Last Night I Had A Dream, You Can Leave Your Hat On, Happy Ending, Don't Ruin Our Happy Home (Demo), Gone Dead Train
1999 Eliades Ochoa - Sublime Ilusion - La comparsa
1999 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents....
1999 Bill Frisell - Good Dog, Happy Man - Shenandoah [for Johnny Smith]
1999 Jon Hassell - Fascinoma - Caravanesque, Wide Sky, Mevlana Duke, Secretly Happy
1999 Janice Robinson - The Color Within Me - Sleeping In The Playground
2000 Terry Evans - Walk That Walk
2000 Ronu Majumdar / Jon Hassell / Ry Cooder - Hollow Bamboo - Krsna Kantha Kandam, African Queen, Bay Of Bengal
2000 Ruben Gonzalez - Chanchullo - Rico Vacilon
2002 James Taylor - October Road - October Road
2002 Steve Vai - The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1 - Butler's Bag, Head-Cuttin' Duel
2003 Manuel Galbán, Ry Cooder & - Mambo Sinuendo
2003 James Luther Dickinson - Field Recordings (Delta Experimental Projects Compilation, Volume 3) - Floating Bridge, Race That You Don't Run
2003 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buenos Hermanos
2003 Aaron Neville - Nature Boy: The Standards Album - Danny Boy
2003 Warren Zevon - The Wind - Dirty Life And Times, Prison Grove
2004 Luz Casal - Sencilia Alegria - Negra Sombra (same track, same version as Black Shadow on 1996 Carlos Nunez - Brotherhood of Stars)
2005 Sunny Levine - Love Rhino - Gun To My Head
2005 Crazy Horse - Scratchy: The Reprise Recordings - per 1971 Crazy Horse above, plus a different take of Dirty Dirty
2005 Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - In the Heart of the Moon - Mamadou Boutiquier, Ai Ga Bani, Hawa Dolo
2006 Hello Stranger - Hello Stranger - Kubrick Eyes, We Used to Talk, Dancing for No One
2007 Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back
2007 Robert Francis - One By One - Good Hearted Man
2008 Ersi Arvizu - Friend For Life
2008 Juliette Commagère - Queens Die Proudly - Overcome, Nature Of Things
2008 Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall (recorded July 1998)
2009 Robert Francis - Before Nightfall - Climb a Mountain
2010 The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder - San Patricio

Ry Cooder Guest Appearances - Singles and Promos and other oddities

Year Artist - Title (*if featuring Ry)

1965 The Jazz Folk (later Fusion) - Swamp Surfin'* / Around the Horn* [see Note below]
1966 The Rising Sons - Candy Man* / The Devil's got my Woman* [from On The Rising Sons]
1967 Paul Revere and The Raiders - Ups and downs* / Leslie [from Midnight Ride]
1968 John Braden - What a friend we have in Jesus* / Hand me down man [from John Braden]
1968 Captain Beefheart - Yellow Brick Road* / Abba Zaba* [from Safe as Milk]
1968 Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine* / Something Better* [On Best of... and Greatest Hits]
1968 Nancy Sinatra - Hook and Ladder* [from Boots]
1968 The Monkees - As we go along* [from Head] / You and I
1968 The Monkees - Porpoise Song / As we go along* [from Head]
1969 Pat Boone - July, You're a Woman / Break My Mind* [from Departure]
1969 Fusion - Another Man* / News Of Salena [from Border Town]
1969 Sal Valentino - Silkie* / Song for Rochelle*
1970 Arlo Guthrie - Ballad of Tricky Fred* [non LP] / Shackles & Chains [on Hobo's Lullaby 1972]
1970 Mick Jagger - Memo from Turner* / Natural Magic* [from Performance]
1971 Crazy Horse - Crow Jane Lady* / Downtown [from Crazy Horse]
1971 Gordon Lightfoot - If you could read my mind / Me and Bobby McGee* [from If You Could Read My Mind]
1971 The Rolling Stones - Little Queenie / Love in Vain* [from Let It Bleed]
1972 Arlo Guthrie - The City of New Orleans / Days are short* [from Hobo's Lullaby]
1972 Brenda Patterson - Jesus on the mainline* / same (mono)* [on Brenda Patterson - but supposedly a different version from the LP]
1972 David Blue - Another one like me* / same (mono)* [from Stories]
1973 Bobby King - Lookin for Love* / same (mono)*
1973 Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis / Any Old Time* [from Maria Muldaur]
1973 US Airforce promotional single - Find yourself a Star*
1975 Gabby Pahinui - Wahine U'I* / Aloha ka manini* [from Gabby vol 1]
1977 Randy Newman - Rider in the Rain / Kathleen* [from Little Criminals]
1978 Captain Beefheart - Hard Workin' Man* [from Blue Collar]
1978 Captain Beefheart - Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do* / Electricity* [from Safe as Milk]
1979 Van Morrison - Full Force Gale* / You Make me Feel so Free [from Into The Music]
1981 Steve Young - Crash on the Levy* [a.k.a. Down In The Flood on Seven Bridges Road 1972] / Sea Rock City* [a.k.a. The White Trash Song [LA Version] on Seven Bridges Road: Complete Recordings 2005]
1981 Ry - Across The Borderline* [non LP version] / Borderline* [on Borderline] (Japanese Single)
1982 Ry - Big City* [non LP track]/ 634-5789* [on The Slide Area] (Japanese Single)
1987 John Hiatt - Have a little faith in me / Lipstick Sunset* [from Bring the Family - NB though Ry is credited with playing throughout the LP, Have a little faith in me is just John Hiatt and a piano]
1987 John Hiatt - Thank you Girl* / Tip of my tongue* [from Bring the Family]
1987 Ry - Get Rhythm* [from Get Rhythm] / Get Your Lies Straight* [non LP track]
1988 Bobby King & Terry Evans - Saturday Night (promo)* [on Live And Let Live]
1988 Doug Legacy and the Legends Of the West - Christmas in Prison* [on Hey You!] / Christmas on the Range*
1988 The Beach Boys / Little Richard - Kokomo* / Tutti Frutti [from Cocktail]
1988 Steve Vai - Guitar Duel (flexi)* [from Crossroads film - not soundtrack album]
1991 John Lee Hooker - This is hip* / Father was a Jockey / My Dream [from Mr Lucky]
1992 Little Village - Don't go away mad* / Big Love* [on Little Village]
1992 Little Village - She runs hot* [on Little Village]
1992 Little Village - Solar Sex Panel* [on Little Village] / Do With Me What You Want to Do* / Haunted House*
1992 Pahinui Bros - Jealous Guy* [on Pahinui Bros]
1994 Ali Farka Touré - Ai Du* / Diaraby* / Keito* [from Talking Timbuktu]
1994 The Chieftains - Long Black Veil / Have I told you / Foggy Dew* [from Long Black Veil]
1997 Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan* / Dos Gardenias* / Macusa*
2010 Ry - Quicksand* [non LP track] (Available on iTunes, along with original artwork from painter Vincent Valdez. Helping Ry out are son, Joachim on drums, with backup vocals by Lucina Rodgriguez and Fabiola Trujillo of the Mexican roots band Los Cenzontles. All proceeds to go to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.)

Note: There is some dispute as to whether this single exists or not.
(The) Jazzfolk (or The Jazz Folk) was a band formed by Gary 'Magic' Marker, who played with Ry in the Rising Sons - and who later went on to play with Captain Beefheart (and some say taught Beefheart everything he knows).
Jazzfolk was re-named Fusion and released an album, Border Town, in 1969 (re-released on CD by Wounded Bird Records in 2007).
According to the Rylander website, Swamp Surfin'/Around the Horn was released on Gulf Pacific Records - but I can find no mention of either the single or the record label anywhere else.
Nor can I find anyone who's even seen the single, let alone heard it - and some of the people I've asked have been looking for years.
What's more, on Gary Marker's discography page on the Beefheart website, it says (among other things):
"Two other bands of his, The Jazz Folk and The New World Jazz Company ... were never recorded."
So...

Compilations

Year Album – Ry featured tracks

1972 Woody Guthrie Tribute Part I - Oklahoma Hills [Arlo Guthrie], Rambling Round Your City [Odetta], Do Re Mi [Arlo Guthrie]
1972 Woody Guthrie Tribute Part II - Oklahoma Hills [Arlo Guthrie], Hobo's Lullaby [Joan Baez], Woman At Home [Country Joe MacDonald], Jesus Christ [Arlo Guthrie]
1972 Together - Dirty, Dirty [Crazy Horse from Crazy Horse 1971]
1972 Fruity - Money Honey [from Into The Purple Valley 1972]
1974 Deep Ear - Tattler [from Paradise And Lunch 1974]
1975 The Old Grey Whistle Test - Vigilante Man
1978 Interruptus Collectus - We Shall Be Happy [from Jazz 1978]
1979 No Nukes (Live) - Little Sister
1980 Silver Meteor - Why You Been Gone So Long [Clarence White]
1985 Slash Cuts - The Last Stand [from Alamo Bay 1985]
1989 New Roots - Get Rhythm [from Get Rhythm 1987]
1989 Bummed Out Christmas - Christmas In Prison [Doug Legacy & The Legends Of The West from Christmas in Prison / Christmas on the Range 1988]
1990 (Almost) Everybody Slides - Mood Indigo [Lenny Carlson from Search For The Floor 1978]
1990 Feeding The Flame: Songs By Men To End Aids - Gotta Lotta Livin' To Do [Peter Alsop]
1990 Take It Easy - Little Sister [from Bop Till You Drop 1979]
1991 Ry Cooder Classics I - Not an album by or featuring Ry, but a compilation of earlier or original versions of the songs he has adopted and arranged himself, and/or of performers who have influenced him
1992 Ferrington Guitars (Book and CD) - Ry Cooder Melody
1992 Ry Cooder Classics II - Not an album by or featuring Ry, but a compilation of earlier or original versions of the songs he has adopted and arranged himself, and/or of performers who have influenced him
1992 The Songs Of Bob Dylan - I Need A Woman [from The Slide Area 1982]
1992 Music Of The West: A Tribute to the Singing Cowboys (Video) - Streets Of Bakersfield, She Wore Red Dresses [Dwight Yoakham]
1992 Q the Blues - Statesboro' Blues [Taj Mahal from Taj Mahal 1967]
1993 Q Rhythm and Blues - It's All Over Now [from Paradise & Lunch 1974]
1993 Feel Like Goin' Home - I Shall Not Be Moved [Pops Staples from Peace To The Neighborhood 1992]
1993 Masterpieces - Little Sister [from Bop Till You Drop 1979]
1993 Blues Masters / Vol.15: Slide Guitar Classics - All Shook Up [from Get Rhythm 1987]
1994 High Fidelity Reference CD no. 3 - That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me [Terry Evans from Blues For Thought 1994]
1994 Playing The Blues - Down In Mississippi [Pops Staples from Peace To The Neighborhood 1992], Too Many Cooks [Terry Evans from Blues For Thought 1994]
1994 The Great Unesco Music Experience (recorded live at Todai-ji Tempel in Nara, Japan) - Sex Kills [Joni Mitchell with Tomoyasu Hotei], Subete No Hito No Kokoro Ni Hanna O and Haisai Ojisan [Shoukichi Kina & Champloose with The Chieftains], Going Back To Okinawa [Ry with Shoukichi Kina & Champloose and The Chieftains], I Shall Be Released [grand finale with all participating artists]
1995 Wizard Of Oz In Concert - Over The Rainbow [Jewell], If I Only Had A Brain [Jackson Browne], We're Off To See The Wizard, Finale (Over The Rainbow)
1995 Doin' Dylan - I Need A Woman [from The Slide Area 1982]
1997 Rock And Roll Doctor: (Lowell George Tribute Album) - Trouble [Inara George]
1997 When Eyes Meet: Love Around The World - Subete No Hito No Kokoro Ni Hanna O [Shoukichi Kina from Blood Line 1980]
1998 Byrd Parts - Why You Been Gone So Long [Clarence White]
1999 ROUTES: Britain, Ireland, and North America - Get Rhythm [from Get Rhythm 1987]
1999 ROUTES: Africa, Europe, Asia and the World - Shima Jima Kaisha [Nenes from KOZA Dabasa 1994], Orgullecida [Buena Vista Social Club 1997]
1999 Americanos: Latino Life in the United States - Jennette [Flaco Jiminez from Flaco's Amigos 1988]
1999 Besieged - Diaraby [Ali Farka Touré from Talking Timbuktu 1994]
2000 Summertime Blues: Danish Blues Favourites - Statesboro' Blues [Taj Mahal from Taj Mahal 1967]
2000 2000 Grammy Latin Nominees - Silencio [Ibrahim Ferrer from Buena Vista Social Club Presents... 1999]
2000 The Best Blues Album in the World... Ever! - I Shall Not Be Moved [Pops Staples from Peace To The Neighborhood 1992], Get Your Lies Straight [Terry Evans from Blues For Thought 1994]
2000 The Buena Vista Social Club Series - Chan Chan [Buena Vista Social Club 1997], Nuestra ultima cita [Ibrahim Ferrer from Buena Vista Social Club Presents... 1999]
2002 The Roots of Ry Cooder - Not an album by or featuring Ry, but a compilation of earlier or original versions of the songs he has adopted and arranged himself, and/or of performers who have influenced him
2004 Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon - Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse [with David Lindley]
2005 Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast - Cryin' in the Streets [Buckwheat Zydeco]
2006 From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: Madison Square Garden Concert (DVD) - My Girl Josephine [Ry vocals], Rock Me Baby [Buckwheat Zydeco vocals], When The Levee Breaks [Lenny Kravitz vocals], Backwater Blues [Irma Thomas vocals]
2006 World Circuit Presents... - Chan Chan[Buena Vista Social Club], Soukora [Ali Farka Touré], Candela [Buena Vista Social Club (previously unreleased live)], Silencio [Ibrahim Ferrer & Omara Portuondo]
2009 Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm - She's About a Mover [Little Willie G.]

Soundtracks

Year Film Title – Ry featured tracks (if not featured throughout)

1969 Watermelon Man - Soul'd on you, Fugue 3
1970 Performance - Gone Dead Train, Get Away, Powis Square, Memo From Turner, The Hashishin
1978 Blue Collar - Hard Workin' Man [performed by Captain Beefheart], Zeke, Jerry & Smokie, Party, Coke Machine, Quittin' Time (Main Theme), Easy Listening, F.B.I. (Main Theme), Blue Collar (Main Theme & End Title)
1978 Going South (not released - but Ry performs Available Space [from Ry Cooder])
1980 The Long Riders
1981 The Border
1981 Southern Comfort (not released, however the Theme from Southern Comfort and Swamp Walk are reproduced on Music By Ry Cooder 1995)
1984 Streets of Fire - Hold That Snake, Bomber Bash* (*not released on the Official Soundtrack, but reproduced on Music By Ry Cooder 1995)
1985 Alamo Bay
1985 Paris, Texas
1985 Brewster's Millions (not released)
1986 Blue City
1986 Crossroads
1986 The Color Purple - Miss Celie's Blues
1988 Cocktail - Kokomo [performed by The Beach Boys], All Shook Up [from Get Rhythm 1987]
1988 Pecos Bill
1989 Johnny Handsome
1989 Steel Magnolias - I Got Mine [from Chicken Skin Music 1976]
1990 Cadillac Man - Tattler [different version from that on Paradise and Lunch 1974] (not released)
1992 Trespass
1992 Tales From the Crypt - The Man who was Death
1993 Geronimo: An American Legend
1995 Dead Man Walking - The Face Of Love (see next), The Long Road (see next), Isa Lei [with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt from A Meeting By The River 1993]
1995 Dead Man Walking, "Music from and inspired by The Motion Picture" - In your Mind [performed by Johnny Cash], The Face of Love [performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Eddie Vedder], The Long Road [performed by Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]
1995 Music By Ry Cooder
1996 Last Man Standing
1997 The End Of Violence
1997 The End Of Violence, Songs from the Original Soundtrack - Define Violence, Strange World
1998 Primary Colors
1998 Palmetto - Galleguita / Tutankhamen [with The Chieftains from Santiago 1996]
2007 The New Haven Raids (documentary)
2008 My Blueberry Nights - Eli Nevada, Long Ride, Eyes on the Prize [performed by Mavis Staples from We'll Never Turn Back 2007], Bus Ride
2008 Calavera Highway (documentary)

Other Sources

Year Artist – Source – Ry featured tracks (if not featured throughout)

1963 Jackie DeShannon & Ry - Live At The Ashgrove [Los Angeles, CA]
1963/4 Pamela Polland & Ry - Live At The Ashgrove [Los Angeles, CA] (more than one show)
1965 The Rising Sons - Live At The Ashgrove [Los Angeles, CA]
1970 Ry - Fillmore West [San Francisco, CA] [Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin; Steve Ferguson - piano; Chris Etheridge - bass; Richie Hayward - drums]
1972/79 Ry - Digger [Nyon, Switzerland 1979 (see Lost In The Late Late Show below); Mainport, Cleveland (see Radio Show and Radio Ranch below) and elsewhere in the US 1972]
1972 Ry - Radio Show [Mainport, Cleveland] [Side 1 is identical to Tracks 11 - 15 of Digger above; Side 2 is selected tracks from Boomer's Story, which this album was released to promote] (see Radio Ranch below)
1972 Ry - Radio Ranch [WMMS FM Broadcast, Mainport, Cleveland] [This is the show from which tracks on Digger and Radio Show above were taken. It includes tracks that appear on neither, but strangely (my version, at least) does not include Holy Spirit]
1973 Ry - The Old Grey Whistle Test [British Rock Music TV Show]
1973 Ry - Popgala [Voorburg, Netherlands][Dutch TV]
1973 Ry - Hilversum [VPRO Radio, Hilversum, Netherlands]
1974 Ry - Passim's [Cambridge, Mass]
1974 Ry - The Bottom Line [The Bottom Line, New York City] (see Travellin' Man below)
1974 Ry - Travellin' Man [Tracks 1 -13 from The Bottom Line (above); Tracks 14 -17 Main Point, Philidelphia]
1974 Ry - Record Plant [Sausalito, California] [Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin; Russ Titelman - bass; Jim Keltner - percussion, drums; Milt Holland - percussion, drums; Singers: Bobby King; Gene Mumford; Cliff Givens] (NB Some sources - including Wolfgang's Vault, until recently (after I pointed it out to them) - wrongly credit Jim Dickinson with playing bass)
1974 Ry - If Walls Could Sing [Tracks 1 - 11 Sausalito, California (as above), Tracks 12 - 18 Buffalo, NY]
1974 Ry - Ebbets Field Live [Ebbets Field, Denver, Co]
1975 Ry - Greezy Wheels [The Bottom Line, New York City]
1975 Ry - Fool For A Cigarette [Clark University, Worcester, Mass]
1976 Ry - My Father's Place [Roslyn, New York City]
1976 Ry - Saturday Night Live [US TV Show]
1976 Ry - The Bottom Line [The Bottom Line, New York City] [Ry Cooder - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals; Flaco Jimenez - Accordion; Isaac Garcia - Drums; Henry "Big Red" Ojeda - Bass; Jesse Ponce - Bajo Sexto; Frank Villarreal - Alto Sax; Singers: Herman Johnson; Terry Evans; Bobby King] (Two shows - early show and late show - on 27th October)
1976 Ry - Santa Monica [California] [Ry Cooder - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals; Flaco Jimenez - Accordion; Isaac Garcia - Drums; Henry "Big Red" Ojeda - Bass; Jesse Ponce - Bajo Sexto; Frank Villarreal - Alto Sax; Singers: Eldridge King; Terry Evans; Bobby King]
1976 Ry - Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium [Santa Cruz, California] [band as above] (Two shows - early show and late show - on 13th December)
1976 Ry - Great American Music Hall [San Francisco] [band as above]
1977 Ry - Stand By Me [Amsterdam Concert Building] [Ry Cooder - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals; Flaco Jimenez - Accordion; Isaac Garcia - Drums; Henry "Big Red" Ojeda - Bass; Jesse Ponce - Bajo Sexto; Pat Rizzo - Alto Sax; Singers: Eldridge King; Terry Evans; Bobby King]
1977 Ry - The Old Grey Whistle Test [British Rock Music TV Show] [band as above]
1977 Ry - Rockpalast [German Rock Music TV Show, recorded at Markthalle, Hamburg] [band as above]
1978 Ry (with The Golden Gate Quartet [Bill Johnson, Pico Payne, Cliff Givens, Jimmy Adams] & David Lindley) - Soundstage [US TV Show]
1979 Ry - Cambridge Folk Festival [Broadcast on the BBC] (Ry played two shows, one in the afternoon outside on 27th July [see ???? Ry Cooder Again below] and one in the evening in a tent on 28th July)
1979 Ry - Mallemunt Folk Festival [Muntplein, Brussels, Belgium]
1979 Ry - Lost In The Late Late Show [Nyon, Switzerland] [Tracks 1 - 5 same as Tracks 6 - 10 of Digger above; Tracks 6 - 10 same as Tracks 1 - 5 of Digger]
1979 Ry & David Lindley - Live In Perth
1979 Ry & David Lindley - Live In Kubo Kodo [Tokyo] (Two of three shows - performed on 29th and 31st October and 1st November - one of which is almost certainly the 29th October show, though both claim to be)
1979 Ry & David Lindley - Live In Nakano Sun Plaza [Tokyo]
1979 Ry & David Lindley - Live In Osaka
1980 Ry - Düsseldorf [Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals; Jesse Harms - keyboards; John Hiatt - guitar, vocals; Daryl Verdusco - drums; James Rolliston - bass; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Willie Green Jr, bass]
1980 Ry - Théâtre Mogador [Paris] [band as above]
1980 Ry - Victoria Apollo [London] [band as above] [This is the show from which the tracks for Borderlive (below) were taken]
1980 Ry - WB Promo Video [London] [band as above]
1981 Ry - Borderlive [recorded in London 1980] [band as above]
1981 Manfred Mann & Ry - King Biscuit Flower Hour [US radio show] (The KBFH host says the show "stars Manfred Mann and features a special guest star appearance by Ry Cooder" - which is a tad misleading. Manfred Mann were recorded in Paris and Ry was recorded in London. In fact, the Ry tracks are taken from Borderlive (above) recorded in London 1980.)
1981 Ry - The Old Waldorf [San Francisco, California] [band as above]
1981 Ry - KC Live (aka Try Me) [Uptown Theatre, Kansas City] [band as above]
1981 Ry - Reseda Country Club [Reseda, Los Angeles, California] [band as above]
1981 Ry - Toronto [Convocation Hall, Toronto] [band as above]
1982 Ry - Trondheim, Norway [Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals; Jim Dickinson - keyboards; Chris Etheridge - bass; Jim Keltner - drums; George "Baboo" Pierre - Percussion; William D. "Smitty" Smith - Organ; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Pico Payne, baritone; Willie Green Jr, bass]
1982 Ry - Göteborg, Sweden [band as above]
1982 Ry - Pavillon Baltard [Paris] [band as above]
1982 Ry - Carré Theatre [Amsterdam] [band as above]
1982 Ry - The Old Grey Whistle Test [British Rock Music TV Show] [band as above]
1982 Ry - Hammersmith Odeon [London] [band as above] (Two [of eight] shows - on 27th May and 6th June)
1982 Ry - Live in Milan [Italy] [same or similar lineup to the 1982 shows above]
1982 Ry - Live In Europe [Limited Edition Warner Bros promo, with the same or similar lineup to the 1982 shows above] (NB There is a 4 song version and a 6 song version - subtitled "Extra Price 6-Song Album" - which includes two tracks from the 1977 Show Time album)
1983 Duane Eddy and Band - The Catalyst Live [Santa Cruz, California] [Duane Eddy - guitar; Ry Cooder - guitar; Hal Blaine - drums; Steve Douglas - sax; Don Randi - keyboards; John Garnache - bass]
1983 Duane Eddy and Band - Keystone Live [Keystone, Berkeley, California] [band as above]
1983 T-Bone Burnett - McCabe's Guitar Shop [Santa Monica, California]
1983 John Hiatt - Cabaret Cotati Live [Cotati, California] [John Hiatt - guitar, vocals; Jesse Harms - keyboards; Howie Epstein - bass; Daryl Verdusco - drums; Ry Cooder - guitar] (NB: There appear to have been two shows on two dates, indeed two shows on each of those dates - 19th and 20th November)
1983 John Hiatt - Wolfgang's [San Francisco] [band as above]
1983 John Hiatt - The Palace [Hollywood, Ca] [band as above] (recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Show) (NB John did two Hollywood shows on consecutive nights - this one on the 24th November and one on the 23rd November, without Ry)
1983 Randy Newman - Live At The Odeon (DVD) [New York] - Mama Told Me Not To Come, Let's Burn Down The Cornfield, Rider In The Rain (with Linda Ronstadt)
1984 John Hiatt - King Biscuit Moments [King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Show] [band as above]
1984 Ry - KCRW Live [KCRW Studios, Santa Monica] [Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals; Van Dyke Parks - keyboards; Jim Keltner - drums; George "Baboo" Pierre - Percussion; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Willie Green Jr, bass]
1984 Ry - Cabaret Cotati Live [Cotati, California] [Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals; Van Dyke Parks, keyboards; Jorge Calderon, bass; Jim Keltner, drums; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Willie Green Jr, bass] (Two shows - on the 4th and 5th August)
1984 Ry - Down In The Boondocks [Kansas City radio broadcast]
1987 Various - Grammy Awards Ceremony (featuring Albert King, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Etta James, Junior Wells, Big Jay McNeely and, hiding as a sideman in the wings, Ry)
1987 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - San Francisco [18th March] [Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals; Jim Keltner - drums; Van Dyke Parks - keyboards; Jorge Calderon - bass; Flaco Jimenez - accordion; Miguel Cruiz - percussion; Steve Douglas - sax; George Bohannon - trombone; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Terry Evans, baritone; Arnold McCuller, tenor; Willie Green Jr, bass]
1987 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Wolfgang's [19th March - San Francisco, California]
1987 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Cabaret Cotati Live (aka Back In The Hippie Days) [23rd March - Cotati, California]
1987 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Let's Have A Ball [25th March - The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, California]
1987 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Laguna Seca Recreation Area [Monterrey, California]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Birmingham NEC [Jim Dickinson on keyboards]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Seinajski [Finland] [Jim Dickinson on keyboards]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Frankfurt [Jim Dickinson on keyboards]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Vredenburg, Utrecht [Holland] [Jim Dickinson on keyboards]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Amsterdam [Jim Dickinson on keyboards]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Manchester Apollo
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Nurburgring Open Air Festival
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Wembley Arena [Harry Dean Stanton guests on vocals]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Tokyo Live [Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, 28th June] [Steven Tyler guests on vocals]
1988 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Do Re Mi [Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, 29th June]
1987/8 Ry - Slide On Dropdown D [a mishmash, this; a selection from Let's Have A Ball (above) with The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces, All Shook Up (with MBRA and Steven Tyler) from Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo (the 28th June show, above), tracks from the Record Plant show (1974, above) and a truncated version of Dark Is The Night recorded in Buffalo, New York in 1974 (see If Walls Could Sing above)]
1987/92 Ry - Live In The USA [Another mismash which includes 9 tracks from Let's Have A Ball (above) with The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces, plus Ry with John Lee Hooker performing Crawlin' King Snake in San Francisco 1992 from John Lee Hooker And Friends (2002) and I'm In The Mood For Love (2006, both below)] (NB Some sources wrongly give the Catalyst performance date as 24th March 1987 and credit "Mad Dog" Martin on piano)
1989 Ry (with John Hiatt) - Newport Folk Festival [Newport, R.I.]
1989 Flaco Jimenez & Ry - Santa Monica Pier [Santa Monica, California]
1989 Ry - New Orleans Live [Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans Artists Against Hunger & Homelessness]
1989 Ry - The Ghost Of Faffner Hall [Jim Henson TV show] - Pigfoot Shuffle
1989 Ry & David Lindley with Bonnie Raitt - Santa Monica Civic Center [Santa Monica, California]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Carré Theatre [Amsterdam] (Two shows - on the 2nd and 3rd July)
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Grand Rex [Paris]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Rock Werchter [Werchter, Belgium]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - A Magic Night In Milan [Palatrussardi Theatre]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Glastonbury Festival
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Hammersmith Odeon [London]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Newport Folk Festival [Newport, R.I.]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Womad Harbour Front [Toronto]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Eel River Live [French's Camp, Garberville, California]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Berkeley Community Centre [Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley, California]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Bumbershoot Festival [Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, Washington]
1990 Johnnie Johnson - Village Music Annual Party [Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California] [Johnnie Johnson - piano; Ry Cooder - guitar; Tim Drummond - bass; Steve Douglas - sax; Scott Matthews - drums (with guests Annie Sampson & Richard Berry)]
1990 Ry & David Lindley - Beacon Theatre [New York City] [with Joachim Cooder - percussion; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Terry Evans, baritone; Willie Green Jr, bass]
1990 Ry - Tribute To John Lee Hooker [Madison Square Garden, New York City] [Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals; Tim Drummond - bass; Jim Keltner - drums; Joachim Cooder - percussion; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Terry Evans, baritone; Willie Green Jr, bass]
1992 Little Village - Frankfurt Live
1992 Little Village - Berlin Live
1992 Little Village - Hamburg Live
1992 Little Village - Düsseldorf Live
1992 Little Village - Solar Sex Panel Live [San Francisco] (Pluto Records - also released as Anywhere, USA [by Not Guilty] and Living Action [by Kisses Deluxe], both 1993)
1992 Little Village - Studio rehearsals
1992 Little Village - Burbank
1992 Little Village - Seattle
1992 Little Village - Minneapolis
1992 Little Village - Stage Job [Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago]
1992 Little Village - Beacon Theatre [New York]
1992 Little Village - Philadelphia
1992 Little Village - Denver Live
1992 Little Village - Austin Live
1992 Little Village - Santa Barbara
1992 Little Village - Boston Live
1992 Little Village - Toronto [Massey Hall, Toronto]
1992 Little Village - The Late Show [BBC TV]
1992 Little Village - American Music Festival [Crystal Palace Bowl, London]
1992 Little Village - Festa dell'Unità [Milan]
1992 Pahinui Bros - The Works [LA TV show]
1992 Various Artists - Shoreline Amphitheatre [Mountain View, California] (two days of concerts on 10th and 11th October) - Ry performs in sets with John Lee Hooker and Santana (along with Steve Miller) (both on the 10th) and with David Lindley (on the 11th)
1993 Ry & David Lindley - Arlington Theatre [Santa Barbara, California]
1993 Ali Farka Touré & Ry - KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic [US radio show]
1993 Aerosmith - Great Western Forum, Inglewood [Los Angeles, California] - All Your Love and Hangman Jury
1994 Ry & David Lindley - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival [with Bobby King, Terry Evans and Willie Green on vocals, and Joachin Cooder on percussion]
1994 Ali Farka Touré - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
1995 Ali Farka Touré & Ry - Edmonton Folk Festival (radio broadcast)
1995 Cooder / Lindley Family - Live In Antwerp
1995 Cooder / Lindley Family - Royal Festival Hall, London
1995 Cooder / Lindley Family - Live In Tokyo
1995 John Lee Hooker - House Of The Blues [US TV show]
2000 A Gathering of the Clan - Friends of Fred Walecki Benefit Concert [Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, Ca] (Two shows - on the 8th and 9th August)
2002 John Lee Hooker - John Lee Hooker And Friends (DVD) [A compilation of TV performances between 1984 and 1992] - Crawlin' King Snake, Bad Like Jesse James and Same Old Blues
2004 Tribute To Don Tosti [Rivera Hotel, Palm Springs, Ca] (according to Mark Guerrero - who also performed, along with his father, Lalo - "Ry Cooder sat in with the band for their entire set.")
2005 Los Lobos - Wolf Survival Kit #2 [Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for Arts & Education, Los Angeles, Ca] - Crei (with Little Willie G)
2006 John Lee Hooker- I'm In The Mood For Love (DVD) [reproduction of John Lee Hooker And Friends (2002) above with the order switched]
2007 Ry Cooder & The New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers - A Prairie Home Companion (with Garrison Keillor) [Town Hall, New York City] [Ry Cooder - vocals, guitar; Paddy Maloney - whistle, pipes; Mike Seeger - banjo; Roland White - mandolin]
2007 Rolling Stones - Got To Be Worked On 1966 - 1970 [Various Olympic Studios Sessions bootleg] - Sister Morphine
2008 Guitar-Bass-Drums - Benefit for the Richard deLone Special Housing Project [Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, Ca] [Ry Cooder; Nick Lowe; Jim Keltner] (Two shows - on the 2nd and 3rd October)
2009 Juliette Commagère - The Echo [Los Angeles, Ca] - Nature Of Things
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - The Olympia Theatre [Dublin] [Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals; Nick Lowe - bass, acoustic guitar, vocals; Joachim Cooder - drums; Juliette Commagère - vocals, percussion; Alex Lilly - vocals, percussion]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Arcimboldi [Milan] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Auditorium Parco della Musica [Rome] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Carré Theatre [Amsterdam] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Koningin Elisabethzaal (Queen Elizabeth Hall) [Antwerp] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Palau Sant Jordi Club [Barcelona] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Palacio Municipal de Congresos [Madrid] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Palacio Euskalduna [Bilbao] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Philharmonic Hall [Liverpool] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - JCB Hall [Tokyo] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Grand Cube (aka Singin' In My Sleep [Stand Up and Say No]) [Osaka] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Orchard Hall [Tokyo] [band as above] (9th, 10th and 11th November shows)
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - Civic Theatre [Auckland, NZ] [band as above]
2009 Ry and Nick Lowe - State Theatre [Sydney, Australia] [band as above] (Two shows - on the 23rd and 24th November)
2009 Bob Dylan - The People Speak [US TV documentary] [with Ry on guitar and Van Dyke Parks on piano] - Do Re Mi
2010 The Chieftains - RTE Studios Dublin [Irish Radio Broadcast] - The Sands Of Mexico

???? Ry - Ry Cooder Again [Release date unknown, but possibly early 1980s. Supposedly recorded live at Ardent Studios, Mainpoint and Cleveland, comprising material from the Radio Ranch show (1972) above and other stuff from around the same time - however the B side is from a recording of Ry's afternoon show at the Cambridge Folk Festival on 27th July 1979. There is a superior recording of this latter set which was aired on the BBC with additional tracks.]

If anyone has anything else to add, please let me know

Solo Albums

1970 Ry Cooder
1972 Into The Purple Valley
1972 Boomer's Story
1974 Paradise and Lunch
1976 Chicken Skin Music
1977 Show Time
1978 Jazz
1979 Bop Till You Drop
1980 Borderline
1982 The Slide Area
1986 Why Don't You Try Me Tonight? [compilation]
1987 Get Rhythm
1994 River Rescue - The Very Best Of Ry Cooder [compilation including River Come Down (recorded for a Lee jeans commercial)]
2005 Chavez Ravine
2007 My Name Is Buddy
2008 I, Flathead
2008 The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed [compilation including Let's Work Together (previously unreleased)]

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