Ry Cooder will appear on New York public radio station WFUV, 90.7 FM, on Thursday, June 10, at 8:30 AM ET and 3:45 PM ET, to premiere his latest effort, "Quicksand," a new song he wrote in response to Arizona's recent immigration law, SB 1070. Cooder will speak with WFUV's Claudia Marshall about the track, which he recorded with his son Joachim on drums and Lucina Rodriguez and Fabiola Trujillo of Los Cenzontles on backing vocals, and which will be available exclusively on iTunes beginning June 29, with all proceeds going to support MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund. For more information on that organization, visit maldef.org.
               
The artwork for the single (pictured at left) features the piece "Nuthin' To See Here, Keep On Movin'!" by Vincent Valdez, the Texas-born artist whose illustrations have been  featured on Cooder's 2007 album My Name Is Buddy and on El Chávez Ravine, the refurbished ice cream truck Cooder commissioned in honor of the Los Angeles Chicano community razed in the 1950s to make way for Dodger Stadium and the subject of his 2005 album, Chávez Ravine. For more on Valdez, head to vincentvaldez.net.
               
Tune in to WFUV, streaming online at wfuv.org, Thursday at 8:30 AM ET and 3:40 PM ET for the world premiere of "Qucksand" and to hear Cooder discuss the project. To read the song's lyrics, head to nonesuch.com/albums/quicksand. A direct link to the iTunes order page will be added as soon as it becomes available.