Ry Cooder announces soundtracks box set

Ry Cooder has announced details of a seven CD retrospective boxed set focussing on his soundtrack work in the Eighties and early Nineties.

Ry Cooder: Soundtracks will be released by Rhino on September 30.

The set contains scores for landmark films directed by Walter Hill and Wim Wenders; the musicians accompanying Cooder include Jim Keltner, Jim Dickinson, David Lindley and Van Dyke Parks, as well as Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench.

The tracklisting for Ry Cooder: Soundtracks is:

The Long Riders (1980)

Trespass (1993)