# A Meeting by the River guitar solo

> The guitar solo on A Meeting by the River by Ry Cooder & V. M. Bhatt (1993). From the album A Meeting by the River. A world classic from the 1990s.

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Ry Cooder & V. M. Bhatt, 1993, from *A Meeting by the River*. Solo by *Ry Cooder*.

An extended improvisation with Indian mohan veena master V. M. Bhatt, where Cooder's bottleneck converses with Hindustani phrasing. It won a Grammy and remains a cross-cultural landmark.

A Meeting by the River by Ry Cooder & V. M. Bhatt is #15 in our ranking of the best Ry Cooder guitar solos. The solo is played by Ry Cooder and the song was released in 1993.

## In our lists

- [The Best Ry Cooder Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/ry-cooder-guitar-solos/) — #15

## Sources

### Who played the guitar solo on A Meeting by the River?

Ry Cooder played the solo on Ry Cooder & V. M. Bhatt's A Meeting by the River (1993).

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