Ry Cooder: Election Special [Digipak]

Ry Cooder: Election Special [Digipak] - Nonesuch (USA) - NON 531159 - 075597961638

Artist: Ry Cooder
Genre: Rock ~ Singer/Songwriter
Label: Nonesuch (USA)
Catalog No: NON 531159
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-08-21 (Original ~ 2012)
Running time: 38 min. 31 sec.
Studio/Live: Studio
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 075597961638

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Audio Samples

>Mutt Romney Blues
>Brother Is Gone
>Wall Street Part of Town, The
>Guantanamo
>Cold Cold Feeling
>Going to Tampa
>Kool-Aid
>90 and the 9, The
>Take Your Hands off It

Track List

>Mutt Romney Blues
>Brother Is Gone
>Wall Street Part of Town, The
>Guantanamo
>Cold Cold Feeling
>Going to Tampa
>Kool-Aid
>90 and the 9, The
>Take Your Hands off It

Album Reviews:

Rolling Stone (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "ELECTION SPECIAL is protest music delivered with a patriot's gifts -- the American-roots beauty and expert fire in Ry Cooder's playing -- and long memory."

Billboard (p.24) - "Musically, Cooder keeps things lo-fi and DIY....Cooder remains a consummate blues player and blues tunes dominate..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "ELECTION SPECIAL seizes its moment and the soapbox....Ry exuberantly dusts his broom, mixes his licks and shouts news across an old-school 39-minutes of album time..."

Album Notes

Personnel: Ry Cooder (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Joachim Cooder (drums).

Audio Mixer: Martin Pradler.

Recording information: Drive-By Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Wireland Studios, Chatsworth, CA.

Photographer: Joachim Cooder.

Just in time for the 2012 presidential contest, Ry Cooder drops Election Special, the follow-up to the topical and thematic Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down. Like virtually all of his records in the 21st century, Cooder's album is full of folk, blues, and roots songs that are unapologetically political in nature. He plays everything but drums, and wrote or co-wrote the tunes. Rather than use metaphors, Cooder takes direct -- often humorous -- aim at the objects of ire this time out: Super PACS, multi billionaire conservative activist brothers Charles and David Koch, and candidate Mitt Romney -- also a billionaire.



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