# Vigilante Man guitar solo > The guitar solo on Vigilante Man by Ry Cooder (1972) starts at about 0:14. From the album Into the Purple Valley. A blues classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Ry Cooder, 1972, from *Into the Purple Valley*. Solo by *Ry Cooder*. Cooder's take on the Woody Guthrie song features menacing, snaking slide lines that became a landmark of modern bottleneck playing. Vigilante Man by Ry Cooder is #3 in our ranking of the best Ry Cooder guitar solos. The solo is played by Ry Cooder and the song was released in 1972. ## In our lists - [The Best Ry Cooder Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/ry-cooder-guitar-solos/) — #3 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Vigilante Man? Ry Cooder played the solo on Ry Cooder's Vigilante Man (1972). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)