Artist: RY COODER
Album: PULL UP SOME DUST AND SIT DOWN (CD)

Release date: 2011
Media type: CD

Ry Cooder's new album, Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, was released by Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records on CD and digital August 30, 2011, with vinyl to follow on September 13. Uncut calls it "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."

Ry Cooder premiered the album's opening track "No Banker Left Behind" on Truthdig Radio. On the program, Truthdig's Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer said of the album: "It's right up there with John Lennon's Working Class Hero, which I think trumps just about anything else as far as taking serious, political observations and putting them to music ... It's just a great album."

TRACKLIST:

1 No Banker Left Behind 3:34
2 El Corrido de Jesse James 4:15
3 Quick Sand 3:14
4 Dirty Chateau 5:28
5 Humpty Dumpty World 4:17
6 Christmas Time This Year 2:47
7 Baby Joined the Army 6:34
8 Lord Tell Me Why 3:00
9 I Want My Crown 2:36
10 John Lee Hooker for President 6:06
11 Dreamer 5:04
12 Simple Tools 5:05
13 If There's a God 3:06
14 No Hard Feelings 5:52