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