Solo albums:
1970 Ry Cooder
1972 Into the Purple Valley
Boomer's Story
1974 Paradise and Lunch
1976 Chicken Skin Music
1977 Showtime
1978 Jazz
1979 Bop Till You Drop
1980 Borderline
1982 The Slide Area
1987 Get Rhythm
2005 Chávez Ravine
2007 My Name Is Buddy
2008 I, Flathead
2011 Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
2012 Election Special
Compilations:
1986 Why Don't You Try Me Tonight
1994 River Rescue – The Very Best Of Ry Cooder
1995 Music by Ry Cooder (film music)
2008 The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed
Collaborations:
1967 Tanyet (with The Ceyleib People)
1988 Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's have a ball (Film, unreleased)
1992 Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder (recorded 1965/66)
1993 A Meeting by the River (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
1994 Talking Timbuktu (with Ali Farka Touré)
1997 Buena Vista Social Club
2000 Hollow Bamboo with Jon Hassell and Ronu Majumdar
2003 Mambo Sinuendo (with Manuel Galbán)
2010 San Patricio (with The Chieftains)
Soundtracks:
1970 Performance
1980 The Long Riders
1981 Southern Comfort
1982 The Border
1984 Streets of Fire
1985 Paris, Texas
Music from Alamo Bay
1986 Blue City
Crossroads
1988 Cocktail
1989 Johnny Handsome
1993 Trespass
Geronimo: An American Legend
1996 Last Man Standing
1997 The End of Violence
1998 Primary Colors
Performs on:
1967 Safe as Milk with Captain Beefheart
1968 Taj Mahal with Taj Mahal
Neil Young with Neil Young
Head with The Monkees
1970 12 Songs with Randy Newman
The Candlestickmaker with Ron Elliott
Washington County with Arlo Guthrie
Stained Glass Morning with Scott McKenzie
1971 Living with Judy Collins
1972 Petaluma with Norman Greenbaum
1983 Money and Cigarettes (February 1983) with Eric Clapton
1984 Midnight Mission Carla Olson & The Textones (featured on two songs)
1987 Bring the Family with John Hiatt
1988 Live and Let Live with Bobby King & Terry Evans
1994 King Cake Party with The Zydeco Party Band
1999 Good Dog, Happy Man with Bill Frisell
2003 The Wind with Warren Zevon (slide guitar on Dirty Life and Times and Prison Grove)
Fiction:
2011 Los Angeles Stories