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Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down

Ry CooderAudio CD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

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Whether serving as a session musician, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder's chameleon-like fretted instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and choices of material encompass an incredibly eclectic range of North American musical styles, including rock & roll, blues, reggae, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Dixieland jazz, country, folk, R&B, gospel, and vaudeville. The 16-year-old Cooder ... Read more in Amazon's Ry Cooder Store

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  • Audio CD (August 29, 2011)
  • Original Release Date: 2011
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • ASIN: B005BY8MSM
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,030 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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"These times," says Ry Cooder, "call for a very different kind of protest song. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" We're way down the road from that."

On his fourth solo effort for Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records, the globe-trotting composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist leaves behind the fantastical yarn-spinning, the magical realism, and allegorical tunes of his acclaimed, Grammy Award-nominated California trilogy-Chavez Ravine (2005), My Name Is Buddy (2007), and I, Flathead (2008) - for the most forthright album of his career. The 14 songs on Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down are, by turns, angry, outraged, bitterly funny, and deeply poignant. With brilliant, Woody Guthrie-like directness and a healthy dollop of satire, Cooder's lyrics address the often-sorry state of our domestic affairs: the bank bailout, the anti-immigration movement, the ever-growing gap between rich and poor, and the never-ending war in the Middle East and its devastating physical and emotional toll on young soldiers.

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Will be recommending it to friends. Cazzam  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
Just can't get enough of the beauty and creativity of the music. Waterbourne  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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67 of 70 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Ry Cooder - A magnificent state of the nation report September 5, 2011
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In the same way that Neil Young gave a vitriolic state of the nation report to America with 2006's "Living with war" we now have another veteran guitarist and giant of real music making a similar declaration. Like Young, the Californian master musician Ry Cooder doesn't like very much of what he sees at the present time whether it be greedy bankers, embezzling landlords, lamentable television, rabble rousing politicians and the prospect of young men being sent into early graves. The great news is that he wraps up all this social comment in "Pull up some dust and sit down" in some of the finest songs he has recorded in years. This album sees a return to the funky preoccupations of "Bop til you drop" with an excellent gospel base, a nice Mexican tinge and a reverential nod to the folk protest of Woody Guthrie. Throughout the musicianship is so good its almost criminal and its worth stressing that as a protest album Cooder's latest is jam packed with sly humour and repeated listens will leave you with a very broad grin.

The whole album sets out its stall with "No Banker left behind" inspired by a Robert Scheer column in the Huffington Post where Cooder arraigns these vile creatures and comments "Well the bankers called a meetin', to the Whitehouse they went one day/They was going to call on the president, in a quiet and a sociable way/The afternoon was sunny and the weather it was fine/They counted all our money and no banker was left behind". It is very funny but also very cutting, a national anthem for a new depression which could be adopted by the US and a dozen other countries, Next is the excellent Mexican flavoured "El Corrida de Jesse James" which is followed by two of the albums massive highlights. First up is the atmospheric and lovely "Dirty Chateau" a song about the trials and tribulations of Latin immigration where his guitar skills are at a premium. "Humpty Dumpty World" alternatively is the song on the album where Cooder imagines the Lord looking down from heaven with despair and just about indicts the gamut of modern creation. Although special ire is reserved for politicians who are cast as "Craven minions sent from down below/occupy the highest portals of the land/as swift is their climb as sure is their decline/Straight back to hell from whence they came". Superb stuff delivered with the kind of funky panache which is Cooder's special calling card.

The most deceptive song on the album is "Christmas time this year" which on the surface sounds like a jolly Tex Mex romp but was clearly written as an anti Bush war protest song firmly in the tradition of Country Joe McDonald's "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag". These themes are powerfully reprised on the six minute deep blues tour de force "Baby joined the army" where Cooder regrets the conscription of a beloved son. In addition Cooder even manages to perform a brilliant passing impersonation of the old Crawling King Snake "John Lee Hooker for President" and in "I want my crown" produces one of the most swampy blues songs since Dylan's "Cold Irons Bound". The whole thing is rounded off by the stunningly beautiful "No hard feelings" where the ghost of Woody Guthrie is summoned in the opening line where Cooder intones "That this land should have been our land" and proves that as a emotive songwriter he has few peers.

Ultimately all leads you to question why is it that only seasoned veterans like Young, Springsteen or Cooder currently have the confidence and verve to take on the big themes and deliver works which are musically sublime but also have something important to say? As it stands "Pull up some dust and sit down" is one of Cooder's best albums period and is simply magnificent.
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Voice Of America September 1, 2011
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Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down takes the the listener further along Ry Cooder's triumphal progress into his elder years. There is real poignancy in both lyrics and music, the same poignancy that found expression in the character of Kash Buck in I Flathead. The world has changed and not for the better; it's inevitably easier to see that with greater clarity at 64 than in your early twenties, his age when he recorded his first solo albums. Then he sang the blues, both of the dustbowl and the delta. Now he sings a perhaps more universal blues of loss and regret, but not of bitterness.

Above all, Ry Cooder is a folk musician - folk, as in regular people. Character is his forte as a singer - he has always found a voice in both his own and others' songs that expresses human quirks and idiosyncrasies, passions and follies in ways that the lyrics may only have hinted at. Ry is a true character actor, as well as being one the very best musicians working in America today. In this record he again he draws on the sadness and beauty of south-western border music; this is his home turf.

Characters populate Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down; the aging reprobate and his Mexican maid in Dirty Chateau, the sidelined working-class white man (Tea Party fodder) in Lord Tell Me Why, the Kash Buck-like old geezer of Dreamer. These people are real folk. We have known them. We are them.

Contemporary America is not a cultural or political climate to celebrate. No wonder Ry has God dismiss the whole damn thing in Humpty Dumpty World. We may be in a sorry political shape and in thrall to corporate power, but at its heart the people themselves are better than that - these songs find the beauty in their self-expression, however mundane. As with the work of the obvious comparison, Woody Guthrie, Ry has made a fundamentally patriotic record. John Lee Hooker For President.

And kudos to Ry and Nonesuch for the digital booklet. All downloaded albums should carry one. One of the worst things about digital music downloads as a commercial medium is the loss of liner notes, lyrics and pictures.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great ride! September 16, 2011
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Wow! Whew! This cd is quite a ride... There is some great classic Cooder playing/sound/style here, and he pulls no punches in his view of where things are at in the US of A of late. The range of vocal stylings and sounds is amazing - on several occasions I asked myself, "Is that Ry singing on this one?". A number of powerful, funny, sad, angry songs. I'm really diggin it, but it will not suit everyone's (political) sensibilities. I definitely get the comparison to Guthrie. Most everything is played by Ry accompanied by his son, Joachim, on drums. If you like Cooder, check it out.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cooder returns to US roots
Ry Cooder is at his level of excellence, musically on this CD. I like that he has turned his focus to American issues, writing songs with a Woody Guthrie influence (but not... Read more
Published 3 months ago by MS HSKR
4.0 out of 5 stars Relevant and Great Music
This seems to be an album that sums up all that Ry Cooder has done musically before while, at the same time, being a great stand-alone album. Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. Powers
5.0 out of 5 stars Time flies, so use it well
This album contains songs about some of the things I have believed most of my life, but were usually criticized as cynical; nevertheless, they are important and it is great to hear... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Todd M. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Absolutely brilliant record--perhaps his finest. The songwriting is phenomenal as are the performances. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Nathan C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Just the best since Chavez Ravine...
If you are a big fan of this amazing musicologist Ry Cooder, you'll LOVE this album. In the same gravelly voice that made "Chavez Ravine" such an important work, he excoriates the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by K. Nolan
5.0 out of 5 stars Arrest The Bankers!
This is one of Ry's best efforts to date. This is a scathing look @ the present banking industry and modern robber barons. It is a fun album though. Read more
Published 10 months ago by William R. Gerding
5.0 out of 5 stars Tops
i like this guy and every single album of his ... it's always big time listening to his albuns ! better than good red wine bottle
Published 11 months ago by Jahman
4.0 out of 5 stars Cooder for President!
Another solid collection of songs that should appeal to most Ry Cooder fans ... unless you were one of those delusional types that supported Bush. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Donald E. Gilliland
5.0 out of 5 stars Now This is a Fun CD
What a fun CD! It's classic Cooder, with a more intense Mexican/Tex-Mex feel to it. I've had it playing in the background as I plan our trip to Spain, and it's really... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Christopher Alexander
1.0 out of 5 stars I want to rate this 0 stars
This CD totally bashes Republicans and President Bush. What a waste of money! Its a piece of crap, as other have said. Read more
Published 16 months ago by L. Roth
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