Check out Ry Cooder’s excellent new single, inspired by Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, in an exclusive premiere on NPR.

Arizona’s ongoing battle over immigration has inspired a new single from guitarist, composer and venerated session musician Ry Cooder.� The song, “Quicksand,” tells the story of six people who attempt to make their way from Mexico to the Arizona border via the so-called Devil’s Highway.

“The Devil’s Highway has been used by migrants traveling on foot for over 100 years,” says Cooder.� “You should try it sometime. Out there, temperatures can get above 130 degrees.� If you fall down, you have religious hallucinations, then you die, cooking from the inside out.� If you get lucky, you might make it to Yuma, but then what?� That’s no comfort station they run up there.”

(Hat tip: wrenchwench.)