Ry Cooder Follows Stellar New Cd With New Book Of La Stories

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Ry Cooder's trenchant new album 'Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down' - called a "masterpiece" by WXPN and one of "his best albums ever" by Uncut - explores the underbelly of the American polity, but Cooder's creative year doesn't stop there. San Francisco's City Lights Books will release his first collection of short fiction, 'Los Angeles Stories,' in October.

'Los Angeles Stories' is a collection of loosely linked tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-it-yourself culture of cool cats, outsiders and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine. Ordinary working folks rubbed elbows with petty criminals, grifters and all sorts of women at foggy end-of-the-line outposts in Venice Beach and Santa Monica.

Rich with the essence and character of the times, suffused with patois of the city's underclass, these are stories about the common people of Los Angeles, "a sunny place for shady people," and the strange things that happen to them.

Click here for more on Ry's appearances discussing the book - Oct 5 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco and Oct 12 at Book Soup and Nov 6 at Skylight Books in LA: https://bit.ly/nbHwCT

More on the album here: https://bit.ly/k8BIfT

Raves for the album:
"Ry Cooder's Pull Up Some Dust ...just shot to my best of list. Ry got pissed off enough to make another masterpiece." - DAVID DYE, WXPN THE WORLD CAF�

"He's able to discern and bring together musical styles like no one else can." - NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

"Consider buying the new Ry Cooder cd...great" - DAILY KOS

"It's what Woody Guthrie did at his best." - THE CALIFORNIA REPORT

"An impassioned portrait of 21st century America and its injustices. One of Cooder's best albums ever." - UNCUT