Ry Cooder - Discography

Discography

Singles

• "Little Sister" (1979; Warner Records)
• "Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)" Recorded live, October 25, 1980 at Victoria Apollo, London / "If Walls Could Talk" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California / "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California/ "Look At Granny Run Run" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California (1981; Warner Records)
• "Gypsy Woman"/ "Alimony" (1982; Nonesuch Records)
• "Get Rhythm"/ "Get Your Lies Straight/ "Down In Hollywood" (1988)
• "Come Down" / "Get Rhythm" / "Little Sister" (1994)
• "Quicksand" (June 2010)

Solo albums

• Ry Cooder (December 1970)
• Into the Purple Valley (February 1972)
• Boomer's Story (November 1972)
• Paradise and Lunch (May 1974)
• Chicken Skin Music (October 1976)
• Showtime (August 1977)
• Jazz (June 1978)
• Bop Till You Drop (August 1979)
• Borderline (October 1980)
• The Slide Area (April 1982)
• Get Rhythm (November 1987)
• Chávez Ravine (May 2005)
• My Name Is Buddy (March 2007)
• I, Flathead (June 2008)
• Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (August 2011)
• Election Special (August 2012)

Compilations

• Why Don't You Try Me Tonight (1986)
• River Rescue – The Very Best Of Ry Cooder (1994)
• Music by Ry Cooder (1995) (two-disc set of film music)
• The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed (October 2008)

Collaborations

• Tanyet (1967) (with The Ceyleib People)
• Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's have a ball (1988)
• Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder with Rising Sons (recorded 1965/66, released 1992)
• Little Village (1992)
• A Meeting by the River (1993) (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
• Talking Timbuktu (1994) (with Ali Farka Touré)
• Buena Vista Social Club (September 1997)
• Hollow Bamboo with Jon Hassell and Ronu Majumdar (bansuri) (2000)
• Mambo Sinuendo (January 2003) (with Manuel Galbán)
• San Patricio (March 2010) (with The Chieftains)

Soundtracks

• Performance (1970)
• The Long Riders (June 1980)
• Southern Comfort (1981)
• The Border (1982)
• Streets of Fire (1984)
• Paris, Texas (February 1985)
• Music from Alamo Bay (August 1985)
• Blue City (July 1986)
• Crossroads (July 1986)
• Cocktail (1988)
• Johnny Handsome (October 1989)
• Trespass (January 1993)
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
• Last Man Standing (1996)
• The End of Violence (1997)
• Primary Colors (1998)

Performs on:

• "Sit Down Young Stranger" (1970) with Gordon Lighfoot

• Safe as Milk (1967) with Captain Beefheart
• Taj Mahal (album) (1968) with Taj Mahal
• Neil Young (album) (1968) with Neil Young
• Head (1968) with The Monkees
• Border Town (1969) with Fusion (band)
• 12 Songs (1970) with Randy Newman
• The Candlestickmaker (1970) with Ron Elliott
• Washington County (1970) with Arlo Guthrie
• Stained Glass Morning (1970) with Scott McKenzie
• Living (1971) with Judy Collins
• Petaluma (1972) with Norman Greenbaum
• Money and Cigarettes (February 1983) with Eric Clapton
• Midnight Mission (1984) Carla Olson & The Textones (featured on two songs)
• Bring the Family (1987) with John Hiatt
• Live and Let Live (1988) with Bobby King & Terry Evans
• King Cake Party (1994) with The Zydeco Party Band
• Good Dog, Happy Man (1999) with Bill Frisell
• The Wind (2003) with Warren Zevon (slide guitar on two tracks: "Dirty Life and Times" and "Prison Grove")