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Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down

Ry Cooder

Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down

Solo album number fifteen from the prolific roots guitarist and eclectic music collaborator

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8.6

Label
Nonesuch/Perro Verde
UK Release date
05/09/2011
US Release date
29/08/2011
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  1. 10.0 |   Uncut

    In the transition from imitator to originator, the old boy has made one of his best albums yet. Print edition only

  2. 10.0 |   The Observer

    He's become a Woody Guthrie for our times
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  3. 10.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    If protest is what you want, Cooder has delivered it magnificently
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  4. 10.0 |   The Independent

    His best effort by far since Chavez Ravine
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  5. 10.0 |   The Guardian

    These are songs of a broken, divided society and the gap between rich and poor, but with the anger matched against humour
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  6. 9.0 |   Blurt

    Ranks not only among his very best releases, but among the best socio-political albums ever made
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  7. 9.0 |   BBC

    This is about as good and sustained a riposte to the grubby, grabbing times we live in as any artist has mustered, which makes it essential listening
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  8. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Cooder’s genius here, as on the Californian trilogy, is to reach toward historical sources and depression-era musical language that now seem painfully resonant today
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  9. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Music reclaiming a place at the heart of everything that matters. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   Q

    The heartening sound of an old master at work. Print edition only

  11. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    Yet again, it has been left to one of the old campaigners to step up to the plate with an eloquent, intelligent, angry chronicle of the times
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  12. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Cooder again defies the belief that music with a message can’t be fun
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  13. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    For those who are willing, this is a good place to start an education
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  14. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    A good man, a simple soul, nothing of interest to sing
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