Artist: RY COODER
Album: ELECTION SPECIAL (DIGI)

Release date: 2012
Media type: CD

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."

TRACKLIST:

1 Mutt Romney Blues 3:45
2 Brother Is Gone 5:03
3 The Wall Street Part of Town 3:42
4 Guantanamo 3:29
5 Cold Cold Feeling 5:23
6 Going to Tampa 3:58
7 Kool-Aid 4:10
8 The 90 and the 9 5:16
9 Take Your Hands off It 3:47