| Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down | ||||
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| Released | August 30, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2010–11 | |||
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| Genre | Americana, roots | |||
| Length | 61:17 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Ry Cooder | |||
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Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder. It was released by Nonesuch Records on August 30, 2011, and written and produced by Cooder, who recorded its songs at Drive-By Studios, Ocean Studios, and Wireland Studios in California. He played various instruments for the project while working alongside studio musicians such as Flaco Jiménez, Juliette Commagere, Robert Francis, and Jim Keltner.
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down features topical songs with socio-political subject matter about 21st-century America, including economic disparity, social injustice, politics, and war. Cooder pursued a more political direction with his songwriting, inspired by the Great Recession and protest songs of the past. Its music is rooted in Americana and incorporates traditional styles and musical language from historical sources such as country blues, tejano, and American roots music. The record has been noted by critics for its eclectic musical range, allegorical songs, working-class perspective, and Cooder's sardonic lyrics.
The album was a modest chart success in the United States and performed better in Europe. Cooder expressed disillusionment with the music industry in response to the record's relatively poor commercial performance. Critically, the album was a greater success, earning him widespread acclaim and comparisons to folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie. According to Slant Magazine's Joseph Jon Lanthier, "the orchestrated indignation of [the album] incorporated a protean Greek chorus of economic victims and beat Occupy Wall Street to the punch by several weeks."[1]
- ^ Lanthier, Joseph Jon (August 14, 2012). "Ry Cooder: Election Special". Slant Magazine. Retrieved November 20, 2012.