Saturday Night Attitude Dancing at the 2024 Birthday of Ry Cooder, Phil Lesh, and Sly Stone
by Robert Wilkinson Our Saturday Night Attitude dance features so much talent we’re starting our celebration early! Today and tonight we dance to the music of Ry Cooder, one of the most amazing guitarists ever to walk this planet, Phil Lesh, the founding bass player of the Grateful Dead, and the tragic genius Sly Stone, producer, songwriter, and musical pioneer. From world beat to the Grateful Dead to one of the funkiest bands to ever hit the stage, from the Stones to the Buena Vista Social Club to the shamanic band of legend to one of the first interracial bands in the world who blew the doors down at Woodstock, it’s time to find a groove and enjoy the music! We begin with the amazing music of Ry Cooder (March 15, 1947), an extraordinarily talented musician who has worked on his own, as well as with the biggest and the best inside and outside the industry. In one outstanding instance, Ry was the one who gave us the Buena Vista Social Club. You can hear his work on recordings of Va...