A knife, an eyeball and the brutal accident that shaped Ry Cooder

A knife, an eyeball and the brutal accident that shaped Ry Cooder

Nine times out of ten, most guitarists will regale how they first picked up the six strings after noticing their guitar-playing peers at school were frequently surrounded by a gaggle of adoring girl fans. In Ry Cooder’s case, however, a gruesome accident in childhood sowed the seeds of his eventual rock stardom. We can’t celebrate such a traumatic episode in Cooder’s life, but the results speak for themselves. An authoritative miner of the Ameri…