For the last 55 years or so, you've had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys” with “Rednecks,” a song about American racism so honest and shocking — not least because Newman brandishes the N-word in the voice ...

“Randy’s song was so mysterious,” Dylan recalled. “I never heard a song like that before; it was so cynical.” Newman’s own rendition later stood out to him for “the sadness in Randy ...

So while I hope people take a little bit more away from it than this, if you want to just look at this as a concert, as a compilation of Randy Newman songs, there’s not gonna be one ...

“Louisiana 1927,” a classic from Randy Newman’s album “Good Old Boys” (1974), could have easily been written any time in the past hundred years. With Hurricane Katrina, history was ...

And to cap it off? Dawes opened Sunday night’s Grammy Awards ceremony with a rowdy rendition of Randy Newman’s classic “I Love L.A.” that featured Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, John Legend ...

The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around 1981, he worked for some 15 years on an original retelling ...

Randy Newman returned to late-night television with a performance of his 1972 song "Political Science" on Everybody's Live With John Mulaney. The legendary singer-songwriter also played a ...

Randy Newman, Music’s Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer’s Biography Chris Willman Thu, October 24, 2024 at 9: ...

Since leaving his post as one of the nation’s most well-known rock critics, a job he held down at the Los Angeles Times from the late ’60s through 2005, Hilburn has written four books ...