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- Summary: The 15th solo album for the California singer was self-produced and written with his son, Joachim Cooder.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Aug 22, 2012In a recording career that stretches back more than four decades, Ry Cooder has never before made an album as immediate as Election Special.
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Aug 21, 2012I give him extra credit for both preaching to the converted and doing his damnedest to rally the holier-than-thou.
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MojoAug 17, 2012It's a scream, as we would expect from a musical humorist ranking only behind Randy Newman on the LOL-meter. And rivaled only by Tom Waits as a gloves-off DIY soundscapist in wood, steel, and string. [Sep 2012, p.87]
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Aug 22, 2012Cooder is mad as hell, but because he's a virtuoso with a wry sense of humor that balances indignation and despair, the songs stand as songs, not just soapbox speechifying.
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Aug 14, 2012Cooder, like a Keith Richards/Woody Guthrie hybrid, observes [the current political scene] all as a damn shame, with little condescension and oodles of wit.
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Aug 20, 2012It is the most organic record he's issued in almost two decades; and, more importantly, it restores topical protest music to a bona fide place in American cultural life.
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Aug 14, 2012Though Cooder's clearly singing and playing from his bleeding heart on Election Special, the results make one wish that he'd pass both his mic and his guitar back to his brain.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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