Ry Cooder - Election Special

Includes CD of the complete album

Ry Cooder's Election Special is a wake-up call as the U.S. heads into the 2012 fall election season. On Election Special, 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 it Album of the Month, saying: "In a recording career that stretches back more than four decades, Cooder has never before made an album as immediate as Election Special." The Guardian gives it four stars, calling it "an entertaining, thoughtful and bravely original set."