Rick Cox is an American guitarist who also occasionally plays Bass Clarinet and Sampler. ^[1]

Ry Cooder has described Rick Cox as “the hidden master of the crepuscular and the diaphanous.” ^[2]

Rick Cox collaborated with Jon Hassell on several studio albums released between 1999 and 2020, and on tour, contributing guitar, electronics, and sound design.^[3][4][5]

• Fascinoma (1999)
• Maarifa Street (Magic Realism 2) (2005)
• Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street (2009)
• Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (2018)
• Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (2020)

Cox worked with Ry Cooder on film soundtracks in the mid-1990s.

• Last Man Standing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1996)
• The End of Violence (Score from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1997)

Rick Cox has contributed guitar and electronic textures to numerous film and television scores composed by Thomas Newman.^[6][7]

• American Buffalo / Threesome (1996)
• Flesh and Bone (1996)
• Mad City (1997)
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Pay It Forward (2000)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Angels in America (2003)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Unstrung Heroes (2004)
• The Green Mile (2004)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Little Children (2006)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• Brothers (2009)
• The Help (2011)
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
• Bridge of Spies (2015)
• Finding Dory (2016)
• Passengers (2016)
• 1917 (2019)

• 35 Whirlpools Below Sound (2014), with Thomas Newman