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  • Election Special

    Ry Cooder

    Election Special

    Ry Cooder’s Election Special is a wake-up call for the 2012 US election. On the album, which he produced, Cooder plays mandolin, guitar, and bass and wrote all of the songs, co-writing one with Joachim Cooder, who plays drums on the record. Uncut names Election Special Album of the Month. Mojo gives it four stars, saying: "Ry has proved equal to the crying need of the times." The Guardian gives the album four stars as well, calling it "an entertaining, thoughtful and bravely original set." Rolling Stone, in its four-star review, exclaims: "A guitar great takes a shot at political satire and hits the mark."

  • Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

    Ry Cooder

    Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

    Inspired by a news headline about the Wall Street bailout, Ry Cooder began work on Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down with the track “No Banker Left Behind,” an ode to the corrupt few spared from the financial crisis while most were left to fend for themselves. Uncut calls this "one of his best albums ever ... an impassioned portrait of 21st century America and its injustices" in which Cooder is "remade as a modern-day Woody Guthrie, fearless and funny, for like Guthrie he nails his targets with droll humour while empathising with society's underdogs." The BBC calls it "essential listening."

  • Los Angeles Stories [paperback]

    Ry Cooder

    Los Angeles Stories [paperback]

    The first-ever stand-alone written work from Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. Rich with the essence and character of the times, suffused with patois of the city's underclass, these are stories about the common people of post-WW II LA and the strange things that happen to them.

  • Quicksand (iTunes Exclusive)

    Ry Cooder

    Quicksand (iTunes Exclusive)

    Ry Cooder wrote the song "Quicksand" in response to Arizona's 2010 immigration law, SB 1070. A slow-burning rocker that tells the story of six would-be immigrants making their way from Mexico to the Arizona border, "Quicksand" is available exclusively on iTunes, with all proceeds will going to support MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund.

  • I, Flathead

    Ry Cooder

    I, Flathead

    Cooder’s trilogy exploring a historic/mythic/surreal California (Chavez Ravine, My Name Is Buddy) culminates with this remarkable 14-song album in which Cooder assumes the gruff yet chummy voice of Kash Buk, a hard-living, car-racing, guitar-playing man with a space-alien sidekick. The deluxe version includes a 95-page novella by Cooder in which, he says, “strange is the norm” and characters hop off the page and onto disc.

  • My Name Is Buddy

    Ry Cooder

    My Name Is Buddy

    Cooder imagines, in stories and songs, a homeless tabby, Buddy Red Cat embarking on a Bound for Glory–like journey across country. Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg considers it a favorite and tells the New York Times: “Woody Guthrie's spirit runs through this record very strongly.” London’s Observer describes it as “a light-hearted, sometimes poignant elegy for the American working man and his music.”

  • Chávez Ravine

    Ry Cooder

    Chávez Ravine

    With a cast of legendary Chicano musicians, Cooder recounts the story of how a Mexican-American community was destroyed to make way for L.A.’s Dodger Stadium. Rolling Stone calls it “a remarkable song cycle … a brilliant and flavorful film-noir history lesson.”

  • Mambo Sinuendo

    Ry Cooder + Manuel Galbán

    Mambo Sinuendo

    Ry Cooder returned to Havana’s Egrem Studio, site of the Buena Vista Social Club recordings, to cut these tracks with Cuban guitar legend Los Zafiros’s Manuel Galbán. The pair, says the New York Times, “create a time-warped neverland where unhurried melodies hover above subtly swaying Cuban rhythms.”