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Review: Ry Cooder’s “Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down”

by Terry Roland – Ry Cooder’s latest release, Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, hearkens back to the salad days of his breakthrough album, 1972’s Into The Purple Valley, an ironically nostalgic ode to Central California during the Great Depression. While that album was a wink and a grin about America’s past, an attempt to escape the political insanity…