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Article: Days between stations: thirty years ago, Randy Newman satirically sang, "it's lonely at the top." Today, this composer-performer tops his profession--and it turns out he was right.(Music Column)
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- November 1, 2003
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Randy Newman's first album for his new label, Nonesuch Records, is The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1, a set of solo piano remakes of tunes from across his career. It's an austere and moving piece of work: The songs, some going back 35 years, sound absolutely fresh. If you listen to his earlier albums now--the elegant 12 Songs from 1970, the sardonic Born Again from 1979, or the rough, bitter Bad Love from 1999, his last collection of new songs--you might hear in the orchestration and accompaniment the cliches and hot names of the year in question before you hear the songs. All of that is stripped away on Songbook. There's nothing here that, as the world turns, couldn't ...
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Article: Sound Bites-Audio Reviews
AP Worldstream;
October 3, 2003 ;
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... ... Tolerate." _ Scott Bauer, AP Writer ___ Randy Newman, "The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1" (Nonesuch) Few singer-songwriters ... into solo piano versions of their work than Randy Newman, and none are more consistently _ and bewilderingly ...
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