Première: Ry Cooder Sings About Willie Horton {@ link}

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/ry-cooder-willie-horton.html



Willie Horton now has his own pop anthem!

The inspiration for one of the most racially inflammatory ads in modern Presidential politics, Horton is also now the subject of an ironic new song by Ry Cooder, the composer, singer, and guitarist rumored to have taught Keith Richards how to really get his blues on. Cooder, who lives in California, happens to have a cache of new songs about politics, most of which have yet to be released. They include a bluesy bay from Romney’s dog, complete with hound accompaniment, and a haunting mandolin riff devoted to the Koch Brothers. Cooder turns out to be a New Yorker reader, and after seeing this week’s story in the magazine about Larry McCarthy, the creator of the original 1988 Willie Horton ad, who is now making attack ads for the pro-Romney Super PAC, Cooder sent me his Horton number. It’s called, “Going to Tampa,” in honor of the coming Republican National Convention. So here, in Cooder’s words, is the “glorious world première.” As he told me, “You heard it here, you heard it first”: “Going to Tampa.”

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[Scuba]

1. Thanks from a long-time Ry Cooder fan!

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2. he is so awesome. nt

[dipsydoodle]

3. And another

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live : From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball"

Quite mysteriously, , I've got the non extistant DVD of that concert.

[Jefferson23]

4. I'm a big fan of Cooder and I await in excited aniticipation for

"a haunting mandolin riff devoted to the Koch Brothers." Wow...so glad to hear about this.


I love this guy, how can you not smile when you hear him, so many to pick from, but I love
stuff of his like this one:


Well I went on the mountain and I gave my horn a blow
thought I heard a purty gal say, yonder come my beau

Crow black chicken and crow for a day, crow black chicken and fly away
crow black chicken and fly away, crow black chicken and a...I like chicken pie....

LOL, too good he is.

[marmar]

5. Ali Farka Toure's album with Ry Cooder is one of my favorites.....

Ai Du is an awesome tune.

[Doctor_J]

6. Kick rec for lifelong dissident Ryland Cooder

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