Ry Cooder's three-week tour through Europe with Nick Lowe came to a close in Liverpool on Saturday with "an understated concert of music that captured an air of simplicity, honesty and restrained virtuosity," says the Liverpool Daily Post. "Ry, it’s great to see you back playing live where you belong." The Guardian gives four stars to last week's concert in Gateshead, asserting, "Cooder belongs to the elite group of guitarists, Eric Clapton and BB King among them, whose style can be identified by a single note." The Scotsman gives a perfect five stars to Thursday night's set in Edinburgh: "Cooder showed why he's considered the best slide player in the world." The Herald gives rates it five stars as well, saying the set "confirmed Cooder's status as the king of slide guitar."
Ry Cooder's three-week tour through Europe with Nick Lowe came to a close on Saturday with a final show that "wowed the crowd" at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, says the Liverpool Daily Post.
"Ry, a la Bob Dylan," says reviewer Raphael Callaghan, "was bent on reclaiming some of his best-known recordings in powerful reworkings. This was an understated concert of music that captured an air of simplicity, honesty and restrained virtuosity. Ry, it’s great to see you back playing live where you belong." Read the review at liverpooldailypost.co.uk.
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The Guardian gives four stars to last week's concert at the Sage in Gateshead, with reviewer Alfred Hickling asserting, "Ry Cooder belongs to the elite group of guitarists, Eric Clapton and BB King among them, whose style can be identified by a single note—a mournful, keening slide tone that evokes tumbleweed rolling through a Wim Wenders movie." Read the concert review at guardian.co.uk.
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The Scotsman gives a perfect five stars to Thursday night's set at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre. "Musical icons rarely come in less obvious packages than Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe," exclaims reviewer Neil McEwan, "but icons they are and icons they will remain as long as the continue to give glorious performances like last night's Festival Theatre gig."
McEwan goes on to say that in the performance, "Cooder showed why he's considered the best slide player in the world," offering audiences still more than that singular talent:
In these dispiriting times, this was a perfect antidote to the daily diet of misery. If the two stars had been in any doubt of their reception before the show then the standing ovations and the two demands for encores which followed would have made it clear that Edinburgh loved them.
Read the five-star review at news.scotsman.com.
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The Herald gives the Edinburgh concert five stars as well. It's been a long time since Ry Cooder previously played in Scotland," Barclay McBain explains. "Boy, was the wait worthwhile." The reviewer goes on describe the set as one "that stirred the memory, surprised with its exuberant rendering of some of the old material and confirmed Cooder's status as the king of slide guitar." Read more at theherald.co.uk.
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